Ex-cashier now directs mammoth Acme chain
In her salad days, Judy Spires was as green as it gets, a teenage cashier at an Acme in Westmont, N.J.Thirty-seven years later, she is president of the regional grocery chain.
"The American dream is still alive and well at the supermarket," she said. "Any bagger you see could wind up being president of this company."
But that's impossible, everyone knows that people in minimum wage jobs are stuck there and can't possibly advance. We're told time and again that minimum wage workers have gone without a raise for over a decade!