I try to always be around and help my family in doing whatever they need me to do. I worked throughout high school and once I graduated, I didn’t go to college, and just continued to work,” Maria explains.Īs the oldest of five girls, Maria proudly states that she “wants the best for my sisters and my whole family. My parents didn’t speak English when we first got here, but I learned it at school and they often relied on me for my translation skills,” recalls Trejo who is a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient also known as a Dreamer.Īlthough she is just 22-years old, in listening to Maria speak about her focus in life, three characteristics stand out: her strong work ethic, her willingness to learn new skills and a deep devotion to her family, particularly her four younger sisters. I don’t remember much about Mexico, but I grew up speaking both Spanish and English. In discussing her journey to this current job, she speaks about her past when her family “migrated from Mexico when I was three years old. I check our product inventory and place orders if necessary, and make sure all our customers are happy with their cuts of meat and fish,” Maria says. ILO Photo/ Kevin Cassidy“Perhaps a cooler may break down and we have to fix it immediately because we have all this product that we have to maintain. For Maria work is a part of her identity and a means to make a living to support herself as well as her loved ones. “But I help out all around the store, in the other departments and wherever I can,” she stresses.Īs the oldest of five girls, Maria wants the best for her four sisters and hopes to inspire them to work hard and excel in school to achieve their goals.
Louis style pork spareribs for a customer. “My main focus at work here is cutting red meat, breaking down fish, and helping customers at the service counter,” Maria says as she weighs and prices a cut of St. In describing a typical day at work, Trejo says that “every day is different, and everyday my task is to give the best I can,” she says happily. Maria is busy preparing the fish and meat counters departments with local seafoods available for purchase in the glass coolers. “I work under David Martin who is the owner and he is just great! He has taught me so much in the time that I have been here, and the other people I work with are all so awesome too!” she energetically exclaims. With a warm and welcoming smile Maria speaks about her work and how she became the first women to run the stores’ seafood and meat departments. Maria is busy displaying the mornings’ fresh catch and providing a rich selection of proteins for the dedicated customers of this family owned and operated supermarket. While the normally idyllic beaches of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina are being buffeted by a severe weather outbreak, Hilton Head’s local grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, is abuzz with activity stocking shelves and loading locally caught seafood and produce.īehind the fish counter we meet Maria Fierro Trejo, the Manager of the Seafood and Meat Department at the Piggly Wiggly market. She works hard at the store and was recently promoted to Manager of the store’s meat and seafood department. Maria Fierro Trejo has been working three years at the Piggly Wiggly grocery store on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
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