Huse oversees store operations and merchandising. Evanger supervises administration and finance.
Life is full of better things to do than grocery shopping.
Newer stores have fresh juice bars, pasta bars and expanded natural-foods departments. Nearly all stores have espresso bars, and most also have public restrooms, kept clean. QFC's new flagship University Village store even has couches and a fireplace, next to a Starbucks and Cinnabon inside. We're now in every kind of neighborhood and in outlying communities, and we don't use a cookie-cutter approach with our stores. Or you need a pallet of toilet paper or dog food, and are making a Costco run.