NEW YORK — Stew Leonard Sr., who founded more than 50 years ago a dairy store that became a regional grocery powerhouse under his name with locations in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey, died Wednesday at a New York hospital after a brief illness.
Leonard Sr. was 93 years old, according to the company, based in Norwalk, Connecticut.
A graduate of Norwalk High School and the University of Connecticut’s School of Agriculture, Leonard Sr. first worked for his family’s dairy business at Clover Farms Dairy in Norwalk. In the late 1960s, he realized that the milk delivery business was becoming a thing of the past, and so he decided to build a retail dairy store where children could watch milk being bottled while parents shopped in a farmer’s market environment.
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