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As Melissa Reiff prepares to retire after 26 years with the chain, she credits her father for her love of a good quote and lessons from her first job for her power of positive thinking.
The Container Store at Galleria North in Dallas is one of two new closet showrooms opened last year by the Coppell-based retailer. The other one is in Los Angeles.(Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer)
The Container Store CEO Melissa Reiff has one of those positive attitudes that was nurtured early in life.
“I grew up in a household where my dad started every morning singing,” she said. When she was in college, he started sending her quotes in the mail. His favorite: “Have compulsion for closure.”