Veteran supermarket retailer dies

The 95-year old co-founder of the North Carolina-based supermarket chain that became Food Lion has died at the age of 95.



Ralph Ketner and two others in 1957 founded Food Town, which changed its name to Food Lion in 1982.



Ketner retired from the business in the early 1990s but remained active until the end, according to the Charlotte Observer, dropping in at company headquarters as recently as last December to talk business with president Meg Ham.



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