The Millionaire Grocery Clerk

[Music] it was the early 90s and twin sisters kathy and deborah were 19 and searching for steady employment to support themselves kathy took a position at winco foods grocery store while deborah found work at a doctor's office both worked hard were paid well although they were young started saving for their retirement fast forward 20 years deborah's retirement savings were quite typical for age and position about 30 000 kathy who had spent 20 years as a checker shelf stalker and inventory order had almost 1 million dollars in retirement savings [Music] how is that possible you ask winco is employee owned through an esop employee stock ownership plan a business model that shares stocks with employees as the business grows employees retirement savings grow [Music] all at no cost to the employees and kathy is not alone 400 other frontline employees at winco also have one million dollars in stock and hundreds of others are similarly well [Music] set