Joseph G. LaChausse, Founder and Chief Executive Officer Joseph G. LaChausse is a North Country native who has 30 years of extensive retail management and operations experience in both Northern New York and Ohio.
Prior to co-founding WiseBuys in 2003, Mr. LaChausse was a senior General Manager with B.J.'s Wholesale Club, Inc. (NYSE: "BJ") in Cleveland, Ohio, where for nine years he had been instrumental in the company's expansion into major Mid-Western markets. Mr. LaChausse oversaw and managed the construction of several B.J.'s stores from ground breaking to grand opening. In one 24-month period, Mr. LaChausse personally opened three locations and trained the management teams for five others. In one instance, he set the company record of "bulldozer to open door" in just sixty days. He also opened the company's first 70,000 sq. ft. prototype ("small box") club in Western New York.
In 1996, Mr. LaChausse was honored by B.J.'s with its company-wide "Manager of the Year" award. His stores have been consistently successful, with sales volumes ranging from $25 million to $30 million per year. In addition, he has been directly responsible for sales budgets and projections for multi-unit operations.
Prior to B.J.'s, Mr. LaChausse was a General Manager with P&C Foods, a division of The Penn Traffic Company (NASDAQ: "PNFT"). After joining P&C as a teenager, he quickly became one of the company's youngest managers at age 22. Further recognition of Mr. LaChausse's managerial and operational skills led to his designation as P&C’s "turn around" specialist. In an effort to improve upon the poor operating results of numerous P&C stores, Mr. LaChausse was rotated to eleven separate markets where he successfully created profitable contributors of stores that previously had been producing negative cash flow and losses. He was recognized for tight expense control and minimizing "shrink" exposure, and in one location, Mr. LaChausse's efforts led to an increase of profits of over 110% to $1,300,000 in just 36 months. He was also recognized for developing a program that generated company-wide profits of over $1,000,000 per year to help offset "bad check" exposure for the organization.
While with P&C, Mr. LaChausse worked and lived in various North Country communities, including Lowville, Massena, Ogdensburg, Watertown, Gouverneur, Potsdam, Plattsburgh, Herkimer, Syracuse, and Skaneateles.
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