Company type | Private |
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Industry | Grocery store |
Founded | 1969 Norwalk, Connecticut, U.S. |
Headquarters | Norwalk, Connecticut, U.S. |
Number of locations | 7 (2023) |
Key people | Stew Leonard Jr., President & CEO |
Products | Food |
Revenue | $341 million (2011)[1] |
Number of employees | 2,226[1] (2011) |
Website | www |
Stew Leonard's is a regional chain of seven supermarkets in Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey, which Ripley's Believe It or Not! deemed "The World's Largest Dairy"[2] and Fortune magazine listed as one of the "100 Best Companies to work for" in 2011.[3]
Opened in 1969 with seven employees[4] in Norwalk, Connecticut, the chain now includes six stores in Connecticut and New York.[5][6] The newest location opened on September 18, 2019 in Paramus, New Jersey.[7][8]
The store is notable for its customer service policy, which greets shoppers at each store's entrance, etched into a three-ton rock:[9]
1. The customer is always right.
2. If the customer is ever wrong, reread rule #1.