Wiggett began her career with the Group with a holiday job as Sales Assistant when the first flagship store opened in Broadhurst in 1988.

Very early on her energy, enthusiasm and instinctive feel for the retail textile trade drew the attention of the Group's directors and she was fast-tracked for promotion and training as Woolworths expanded its operations around the country. Assistant Manager in Broadhurst by 1991, she was sent to help open the Group's first Francistown branch and the following year saw her managing her first satellite Woolworths store in Palapye.

In 1993, she was moved back to Francistown as Manager and 2 years later she returned to Gaborone to the Old Lobatse Road branch, a job she describes as very challenging owing to the size and complexity of the store.

Although she left school with only her Cambridge qualifications, Lynnette has benefited fully from Woolworths' comprehensive staff training programme, learning on the shop floor and undergoing extensive brand retail training with Woolworths in South Africa.

In addition, she travelled to London in 2003 on a look and learn mission to the Group's UK affiliate, Marks & Spencer, spending time in their prestigious Marble Arch branch. There she was able to study at first hand high profile stock display techniques, also visiting competitors' stores for critical comparative assessment and analysis.

In addition, Wiggett was sent to world shopping capital Dubai where both Woolworths and Marks & Spencers are represented, especially useful, she says, owing to the similarities in stock lines to Botswana.

As chief textile merchandise buyer she travels to Cape Town four times a year to look at the new Woolworths clothing lines and select what she feels will sell well at home. Commenting on her new appointment, she said that she owes much of her success to the faith and unswerving support entrusted in her by the Group's directors, particularly Tina Handa who has helped facilitate her career at every level. A born-again Christian and committed member of the CIC Pentecostal church in Block 8, Lynnette says that her faith has brought a spirituality and completeness to her work.