When Marcy Benton walked into Publix for what she thought would be a summer job while in graduate school, she didn’t expect to find a lifelong career.
After all, it seemed as though her entire hometown of Lakeland, Florida, worked for the company, and she wanted to escape the familiar for a bigger city.
“They worked around the school schedule, which is very accommodating. And then after I finished graduate school, I decided I’d stay one more year, because they were really nice to me. See how this works?” Benton asked with a laugh.
Then, on what she thought was her last day with Publix, she was called into a meeting with two executives…