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"Growing up you don't think that you're ever going to see anything like this happen, literally right around the corner from where you live."

"My name is Nita. I'm the Head Buyer at Millennium Shoes in Inglewood, California. And my name is Melvin. I'm Head of Security for Millennium Shoes in Inglewood, California. I ended up getting a job here after high school..."

"I started out as a Sales Associate. About a few months later than that, I got pulled as an Assistant Buyer. And then now I pretty much run the whole program here. I came in just as security, and then..."

"...I started getting more involved in what everybody was doing, what they wasn't doing to make the store progress more. Yeah, Melvin's pretty much my right-hand man here. If I ever have any situations, problems, anything..."

"...Melvin's my go-to guy. He's the first person you meet when you walk in the store. So very important.  When you shop over here, you don't usually see stores like this. You have to drive at least 30 to 45 minutes to even get..."

"...this type of footwear or apparel or just vibe. So I think it's really big for the community. It lets everybody know we're important as well too. We deserve these things too. Fashion started in the streets, and this is the streets. This is really where it is. So..."

"...if locals have small brands, we try to bring them in and give a chance to sell their items here. As Inglewood grow, we grow. We couldn't do it without the customers. So with Super Bowl being right in our backyard, why not give to the kids that are up and coming?"

"Give them a chance to feel like that will be them one day. So I decided to partner with Coach Yu. He has a nonprofit developing options, and he helps the kids out literally every year for Christmas. Just anything that they need, he's..."

"...the go-to guy. So I wanted to partner with his Pop Warner football team, and just inspire the kids to want to be great and feel like that could be them soon. So we partnered with Nike to give the kids a bunch of football cleats..."

"...hoodies, and things like that. Just to make them feel special, and like we're here to support them as well. It's really important, and it's inspiring to the smaller kids to just know that that could be you one day. This is..."

"...literally your time to watch this happen in your community, and then you can aspire to be just like these people as well too. So this is really big for the city. I'm excited. I'm excited to be here at Millennium, giving back to the people that shop with us all the time. It's just..."

"...it's going to be a really good weekend. The future of Millennium, we just want to continue to support the people that support us. Long as we have the community behind us and we support them, they support us, we definitely can grow. We just want to make a safe space for everyone to feel like they can come to..."

"...us for anything, and it's like a home. Yeah, we don't want to feel that you just have to come to Inglewood to fill this type of love and vibe here. You can get it wherever Millennium's at, and that's our plan."

"Well, thank you guys for stopping in. I'm going to go have a conversation with Coach Yu you about the  Pop Warner team. See you guys on the field."

Talking Shop: Millennium Part 1 - The Shop