Loyalty Pawn Family

Another month down and how about this crazy weather we’ve been having. Im sure glad some warmth is finally coming, and we can say good-bye to all this rain. For the last few weeks we have completed the remodel of the Florin Mall location. This is one more location that has embraced the visual aspect of the direction the company is moving towards. This was a lot of hard work from the Florin team to get this accomplished and another big thanks to everyone else who volunteered to help the store looks amazing. The next store we are concentrating on is the West Sacramento location not only is it getting a face lift, but we have also been concentrating on getting more foot traffic through that door. We are having an event where you can get your picture taken with the Easter bunny April 15th- 21st so tell all your friends and family.

This month we are going to get to know John Mark, the store manager of the Broadway location. John was born October 15th, 1988 in Sacramento California at Mercy San Juan hospital. He is the oldest sibling of 2. John has been in the pawn industry going north of 14 years. He’s a second-generation pawnbroker, his dad John co owned “at Watt and Marconi Pawn”. John says constant change and progression is what has kept him in the industry and learning new things. Since John has taken over the Broadway location a few changes that have been made to the store are building offices upstairs to make this location the corporate office. There were custom built shelves downstairs on caster where the entire shelf can be pulled out like a giant drawer. This was done so that our client’s merchandise is off the ground and having limited space down there you can bin loans in the back of the shelf and tuck in back in with little effort. John and his team are truly proud on how goods are merchandised in the showroom if you take one look at his showcases you can definitely see the fruits of their labor. Some of their future for what John has for that location are being open until 8:00pm, growing their Layaway balance to $100,000 and seeing his store hit 1 million in loan balance.

Family is everything to John, when he was younger, he remembers spending his summer time on the ocean at Lawsons Landing and his first time he was taken there was when he was only 6 months old. Many good memories were made there especially with his Grandfather Lee who taught him how to fish and crab. Some other memories John has with his Grandfather caretaking the Pit river where he learned how to drive at the age of 12. Summers were always interesting for John at the age of 16 he toured with a carnival selling glass blown figuring’s with his old neighbors I guess this was the beginning of his selling skills. Shortly after that he began working on the river boat on the Sacramento river then worked on a tug boat for the army corp of engineers. He was stationed in England for a few months on the USNS Patuxent. Once he returned, he started his journey with the pawn industry and started working for Capital City Loan & Jewelry and the rest is history.

John and his wife Anna bought a house about 6 months ago and have been working hard to make that house a home. His hobbies are anything that have to do with guns, knives and explosions. He has a real big enthusiasm for history, and he is an avid movie and TV enthusiast. Some of his future plans are to help build up Loyalty Pawn and work hard so one day he can move to Montana where he can buy his own store and continue his life with his wife over there.