"When you're a kid," Jenny says, "you bank wherever your parents bank."
It didn’t dawn on Jenny that she was joining a credit union when her mother drove her to an STCU branch. She didn't know it was a not-for-profit, member-owned cooperative; she just wanted a safe place for the $160 she had earned working at a tofu shop.
In the years since, she's heard friends complain about hidden fees and impersonal service at their national banks. Gradually, she began to realize there really was a difference.
“It's so funny to say you love your credit union, but I do," Jenny says.
When she opened Carousel, a vintage clothing store in downtown Spokane, Jenny was glad to hear that STCU could handle her business accounts. That means she can concentrate on her passion: just-right vintage clothes and accessories for everyday or special occasions.
"I work all the time. I never stop thinking about it," says Jenny, looking chic in a lamb's wool sweater from the 1950s and clip earrings from the '60s. "For me, this is all fun."
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