Loyalty Pawn Family

Hello Loyalty family,

Another month is gone and boy it’s been a hot one. A lot of great thing are happening at Loyalty Pawn. First, we got to celebrate Dominic’s great sales record and success by inviting him to go to Phoenix Arizona and train with none other than Mr. Greg Weiss G.G (GIA) for ICG. This was a great learning experience for him and it’s really going to add more ammunition to be able sell quality jewelry. When speaking to him I asked him what was one of his biggest take-aways and he said learning the terminology of a diamond and getting hands on with grading diamonds. I know when we got back from Arizona, I found myself trying to grade every diamond I could get my hands on to test my new skills. When I’m going around to the stores, I will be going over this training with everyone so we can all be on the same page. One more thing I would like to mention is the great job the entire company has done staying communicated. It is no secret that we were able to recover one of the bikes for the special needs kid at El Camino and the golf clubs that were taken from the owner’s buddy. I didn’t realize how big of a story this was until I personally received a call from a special needs teacher from Iowa thanking us for doing such a great job in recovering that bike. She gave big praise to the employee who recovered it and even mentioned that because of people like him we can make this world a better place. Great job everyone and let’s continue to be the benchmark of what a Pawn Shop should be. With that being said, this month we are going to get to know the real hero of that bike recovery: Joseph Contreras.

Joseph was born August 17th, 1993 in Fairfield California near the bay but if you ask Joseph, he considers himself a bay area kid. He the oldest sibling of three boys. He considers himself extremely lucky he was raised with all boys. He was born in Fairfield, but he was raised in a farm in Vacaville. On this farm his grandfather raised roosters. It was all sorts of fun for Joseph and his family he remembers running, riding bikes, and pretty much getting into any kind of trouble out there. One of his troubled memories was shooting his nerf gun at a rooster scaring him so much it actually passed away. As you can imagine grandpa wasn’t too happy about that. Also being raised on a farm it made him very humble since they didn’t have much, but they made do with what they had and still being able to have fun in the process. When he was in the 6th grade his family moved to Sacramento in 2004 due to some family unfortunate circumstances. When he first got here it remembers it was a pretty big culture shock especially coming from a quiet farm life to North highlands risky life. He went from chasing roosters and playing with critters to seeing helicopters flying by and police chases. It took about a year for Joseph to get acclimated to the idea of living in the city by playing sports. He was involved in playing football since the 7th grade where he was a lineman. Being raised in the house he was raised in he gives a lot of credit to sports for shaping him up into the man he is today. After high school he went bouncing around from job to job working in such places like Cache creek, Thundervalley, distributing beer and mainly warehouse jobs he finally settled in the pawn industry when Josh Perry who is like his brother in law told him to apply. He has now been in the industry coming on three years in November. He fell in love with the Pawn ever since he was able to help and make a difference in peoples lives that are in similar upbringings as he did, I’m sure some of us can relate I know I can. This was a job that turned into a career for Joseph and what keeps him coming back to work is the culture that has been built by the company but especially the El Camino location which feels like a family and the sky is the limit on where he can go in the company.