Read all about why CSP has chosen DePinto as its 2011 Retail Leader of the Year.
As Joe DePinto was going through airport security one day, a TSA agent noticed the 7-Eleven logo on his shirt and asked him, “Have you seen that show ‘Undercover Boss?’ ”
DePinto, president and CEO of 7-Eleven and one of last year’s debut subjects for the CBS reality series, smiled and said yes. The woman went on about the show—clueless, simply and utterly.
A step behind, his wife, Ingrid, having taken in the entire exchange, interjected, “You know, he was the Undercover Boss.”
Read all about why CSP has chosen DePinto as its 2011 Retail Leader of the Year.
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