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Have your purchasing personnel along with the human resources department approach local businesses about selling to your employees inside your facility (i.e. offices, production plants, warehouses). Post a large bulletin board and allow local companies to sell their goods and services to your employees using coupons dispensers, two for one tickets, abbreviated lunch menus, etc.
Ideas for the employee benefits bulletin board:
- Local restaurants will most likely offer discount coupons for lunch meals (i.e. multiple fast food to-go discounts, two for one specials, 15% off entrees, buy meal, get drink free, buy meal, get free dessert, lots of specials on to-go orders for those with 30-minute lunch breaks).
- Tire stores will offer discounts (i.e. buy three tires, get one free, alignment specials, tire rotations at 50% off).
- Auto mechanics will offer discounts off on their repair work. They may take the employee back to work and come pick him up if the distance is close.
- Large local department or hardware stores will offer discount coupons to your employees to shop during lunch hour.
- Dry cleaning stores may offer easy drop off and pickup coupons, price savings.
- Drug stores, convenience stores, tax preparation services, towing services.
Get your purchasing buyers to ask nearby vendors (five-mile radius for example) if they wish to sell to the company’s employees. Allow those companies to bring or send in advertising brochures and flyers which may be posted as offerings on the public employee benefits board at no cost to them or to your company.
Your employees will appreciate this and see this as a great unique benefit and it will not cost your company anything but the space on the wall and a little time.
