Stores Find Good Workers Among Devoted Customers.

Profiles stores that recruit workers from among their customers. Focus on the Container Store, which just opened its first Manhattan outlet in Chelsea; Use of signs on the store that encourage customers to apply for jobs; Impact of warnings from labor market experts about a coming labor force shortage; Reference to the fact that customers require less training and have a regard for a product or service that noncustomers do not; Others companies that recruit from their customer base.