Employee Spotlight

Meet Derrick Zoppi
Employee Spotlight September 2025

Derrick is an assistant meat manger and will celebrate his first year at Neman’s  Family Market Clarkston in November. He enjoys our family oriented company,  nice customers and just likes talking about food. As assistant meat manager, he  loves cutting meat and helping our customers in need of dinner ideas! Derrick’s thinks you will be surprised that in our meat departments, we grind fresh meat  daily and that he gets to cut meat on a band saw. His proudest moment at Neiman’s is working with great people and his advice to new hires would be work  hard and learn a new skill. 

Growing up Derrick’s favorite memory is attending sports games with his dad. His  family loves the outdoors, spending dinner time together and going to church.  Those match with his hobbies of going to church, camping, cooking and fishing. Fishing is Derrick’s favorite sport and also if he had only one meal for the rest of  his life it would be fried fish! Favorite movie line of Derrick’s is a classic, “Keep the  change ya filthy animal” from Home Alone.

Store Director, Ryan Pizzo, explains why Derrick was selected as our spotlight this  month; Derrick is a very quiet guy and over the summer he came out of his shell a  ton. All our manager staff have noticed his change and he has really became a  vital part of the team after his promotion to assistant meat manager. Derrick has taken on a huge role in pushing meat sales since the summer began especially with his details in making all the specialty store made products.

Congratulations to Derrick and Thank You to him and all our employees in  Clarkston, Tawas, St. Clair and Mayville for their dedication and efforts to serve  our customers every day!