Adidas opens store for employees and (sometimes) others.

• Date: 31 October 2019

For about 2,000 employees of Adidas and Reebok, one of the company perks just got a little better.

Adidas, which owns Reebok, opened a store this month that is almost exclusively for employees of the company's 2.4 million-square-foot distribution center in Spartanburg and its area retail stores. It's "almost" exclusively for them because employees will receive passes to give friends and family. Adidas also will issue a limited number of passes to area groups and organizations.

Brian Kriesel, vice president of store operations for Adidas, said it's called an "employee store" in conversation but is perhaps more accurately described as a limited access store. In Portland, Ore., where Adidas and a lot of other major retailers are based, the model is quite common, he said.

Even though most of their employees are based in Spartanburg County, the employee store...