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The Sunday Times Magazine > Filipino Champions
'Mano po, Tatang'
by The Manila Times
Nov 05, 2023 12:16 am

How a childhood memory inspired an employee to work at the SM Store

If one told Johans Juruena that he'd be working at SM 12 years after he met its founder Henry Sy, Sr., he probably wouldn't have believed.

It was 1978, and the nine-year-old Juruena was just looking forward to his yearly summer visit to Manila. Summers from his childhood were filled with memories of hanging around at what was then Shoemart along Carriedo Street in Quiapo, Manila, where his mother, Erlinda, worked as a sales clerk.

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