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Jim Ukrop, former CEO of Ukrop's Markets, dies at 89

Original: “A true business and civic leader,” Jim Ukrop, former CEO of Ukrop’s Markets, dead at 89

Jim Ukrop, the former chief executive of Richmond-area grocery chain Ukrop's Markets, has died at the age of 89. He is being remembered as a prominent business and civic leader in central Virginia, where the family-run supermarket was a local institution for decades before its sale in 2010.

Why now: News of the death of a well-known Virginia grocery executive and civic figure has just been announced.

Jim UkropUkrop's MarketsRichmond, Virginia

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• “A true business and civic leader,” Jim Ukrop, former CEO of Ukrop’s Markets, dead at 89 · WWBT

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