Special needs employees show their skills and succeed in the marketplace

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Special needs employees show their skills and succeed in the marketplace

Their journey into the workforce began in a makeshift grocery store built in the early 2000s in a North Hills warehouse to teach adults with disabilities how to become supermarket courtesy clerks, formerly called “box boys.” Their days of receiving financial support from the state ended at age 18, and now as adults they were looking for what everyone wants — an opportunity and a paycheck. A chance to show what they could do after all the years o…