# "Welcome in"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 1, 2022, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-in/958753 "2022-02-01T17:13:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2022, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-in/958753/6 "2022-02-01T17:49:23Z")
Here’s a thread I started on the subject back in 2020: > [@When did businesses start having employees welcome customers in?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-businesses-start-having-employees-welcome-customers-in/923545): > > Wal-Mart had their “greeters” going back to at least the 1980s, maybe earlier. But in what seems like a very recent phenomenon, like just starting in the last year or two, often when I walk into a store whichever employee happens to be closest to the entrance shouts “Welcome in!” at me. I’ve noticed it at multiple, unrelated stores – Petco, BevMo, Beach Hut Deli. All of these business must have instituted some corporate policy requiring their employees to say this. When did they start doing … Needless to say, I started noticing that phrase at retail establishments a few years ago. And like I said in the other thread, it sounds very much like a “corporate speak” greeting to my ears, and I assume it’s something their management is making them say. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-in/958753)._