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Dead connection by charlie price5/19/2023 ![]() Leonard retired around 1990, but remained chairman emeritus of the company’s board. ![]() ![]() In 2015, Business Insider praised Kroger’s customer loyalty program and Wegmans’s walk-in beer locker, but it concluded that anyone who had ever set foot in Stew Leonard’s “knows it is miles above the rest.” “You’d have to own a cow to get it sooner,” his advertisements proclaimed.īryan Miller described it in The New York Times as the “Disneyland of Dairy Stores” “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” called it the “World’s Largest Dairy Store” and it earned a place in the Guinness World Records for having the highest dollar sales per square foot of selling space. Leonard opened his original store in Norwalk, Conn., in 1969 as a destination that promised fresh milk because it was built around a bottling plant. ![]() The cause was complications of pneumonia, his son Stewart Jr. Stew Leonard Sr., a folkloric retailer who expanded his namesake stores into merchandising meccas replete with petting zoos and mechanical singing farm animals, died on Wednesday at a hospital in Manhattan. ![]()
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