Scott McClelland -- the H-E-B executive perhaps most recognizable for affably enduring light ridicule at the hands of football star J.J. Watt in the grocery chain’s TV commercials -- didn’t lay bare some grand corporate malfeasance or announce plans to shutter stores.
But his testimony before legislators last year startled advocates nonetheless.
McClelland told members of the Texas House public education committee a bit about H-E-B’s employee training materials. More specifically, about how they’d recently had to rewrite them for a fifth grade reading level, down from an eighth grade reading level.
“I work in the supermarket business -- we’re not rocket science,” he said recently. “If that happens in oil and gas and high tech, businesses that may not have huge brick and mortar presence on the ground will go elsewhere and it’s going to be bad for our cities.”
[For more of this story, written by Jill Cowan, go to http://www.dallasnews.com/busi...s-coalition-says.ece]
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