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Lou Claxton had been told that he would have to work
hard at Jewel-Osco. “But I was not a stranger to hard
“I just love work. My first job was when I was nine years old
delivering papers.” Lou says he also pumped gas,
what I do. I worked as a bus boy at the old McCormick Place,

love to come worked in the union stock yards and worked on his
father’s manufacturing barber chairs.
to work, I Fifty years ago Lou started at the rate of $3.10 per hour
“which was good money back then.” He admits he
cannot came to Jewel-Osco from the steel mills in Gary

imagine not because “you got paid every week, the steel mills paid
every two weeks.”
working Lou began as an assembler on day shifts, and after a
short period he moved to the receiving department
here.” where he remained for 30 years. Lou then moved back
to shipping and he is currently sorting pallets and
selecting exception orders on day shift.

“When I started the shipping and receiving dock was on the east side of the
building and inside. The ceiling was about fifteen feet lower than it is now all of the
lift trucks were sit down units.”
Lou was born on the South Side, is married his lovely wife Rocheele and together they
have four children and as he put it, “a couple of handful of grandchildren.”
When asked what advice you would give to new associates Lou said “come to work
every day and when you get there do the best possible job you can.”
Lou Claxton
Distribution Center

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