Where is the initial start up training program for Batteries Plus Bulbs held?
Batteries_Plus_Bulbs Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
Training. Our initial training program, the initial startup and commercial sales effectiveness training programs, are conducted primarily at our corporate training center in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, in one of our Stores and online. We currently offer the initial startup training program 11 to 13 times each year, with one class for commercial and one class for retail generally offered each month. You must attend the one week on-site commercial training in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, within three months of signing your Franchise Agreement. Once completed, you must open your store for commercial sales. Within one month of opening for commercial sales, you must also complete your online training modules covering battery product, bulb product, commercial selling and operations. Once a site is secured, you will attend the one week on-site retail training program offered in Pewaukee, Wisconsin. Once the one week retail training is complete, you will spend an additional week of training in a designated store. The initial startup training program includes instruction relating to Store operations, understanding the equipment and product use, costs and cash control, customer service, accountability for sales and marketing, methods of controlling operating costs and the Retail Management System. You also must complete additional virtual training covering human resources, selling, operations, and finance.
You may not open your Store unless each proposed Store manager who will oversee day-to-day operations and management of the Store ("Store Manager") successfully completes the initial start up training program, including all online courses. We anticipate that you (if franchisee is an entity, a Principal Owner) will be a proposed Store Manager. If we determine that the proposed Store Manager is not qualified to manage the Store, we will allow you to select a substitute Store Manager to complete the initial start up training program.
While new franchise owners must successfully complete all the training programs, we will make available to new Store associates of existing franchise owners various tools included in the initial start up training program.
INITIAL START UP TRAINING PROGRAM FOR NEW FRANCHISE OWNERS
Source: Item 15 — Obligation to Participate in the Actual Operation of the Franchise Business (FDD pages 47–48)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to the 2025 Batteries Plus Bulbs FDD, the initial startup and commercial sales effectiveness training programs are primarily held at the corporate training center in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, in one of their stores, and online. The initial startup training program is offered 11 to 13 times each year, generally with one class for commercial and one for retail each month.
A new Batteries Plus Bulbs franchisee must attend a one-week on-site commercial training in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, within three months of signing the Franchise Agreement. After completing the commercial training, the franchisee must open their store for commercial sales. Within one month of opening for commercial sales, the franchisee must complete online training modules covering battery product, bulb product, commercial selling, and operations. Once a site is secured, the franchisee will attend a one-week on-site retail training program offered in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, followed by an additional week of training in a designated store.
Batteries Plus Bulbs requires that each proposed store manager successfully completes the initial startup training program, including all online courses, before the store can open. The initial startup training program includes instruction relating to store operations, understanding equipment and product use, costs and cash control, customer service, accountability for sales and marketing, methods of controlling operating costs, and the Retail Management System. Franchisees must also complete additional virtual training covering human resources, selling, operations, and finance. New store associates of existing franchisees have access to various tools included in the initial startup training program.