Case Study: Sprouts cuts onboarding time and scales culture with Strivr VR training

Sprouts cuts onboarding time by 81% with Strivr

Sprouts, a nationwide natural and organic foods retailer, faced challenges with standardizing and scaling its culture-driven onboarding for new hires across its 400+ stores. Their previous in-person cluster training was costly, time-consuming, and led to inconsistent performance. Partnering with Strivr, Sprouts sought to create an immersive learning program to instill its core values and customer service approach efficiently.

Strivr implemented a custom VR training solution consisting of three live-action courses covering company values, customer service, and food safety. This program reduced new hire onboarding time by 81%, from 4 hours to 45 minutes. The Strivr solution also led to dramatically improved engagement and retention, with VR learners being 16 times more likely to remember all core values. The program was so successful it was expanded to train over 56,000 tenured team members across the entire organization.

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