They Smile Over There
My father has worked in grocery stores in California for what seems like my entire life. Albertsons, El Super, Northgate Market, Smart and Final, and then Northgate Market again. After graduating high school, he worked his way up from Receiver to Assistant Manager to Grocery Manager and Front End Manager. Sometimes when he started at a new store, he had to begin at the bottom again as a cashier. Most of these stores were Mexican markets, and whenever he would leave one of those, he would say he wanted to switch over to the American ones. The better ones. I remember him mentioning Whole Foods, and something about the benefits being good. Raised with my father’s understanding that organic, natural, and expensive stores were good places to work, I had... Read more...
