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- 1Jim Ukrop, former CEO of Ukrop's Markets, dies at 89▼“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.
- 2Jim Ukrop, Richmond grocery figure, dies at 89▼Jim Ukrop, who helped grow grocery store into Richmond institution, dies at 89
Jim Ukrop has died at the age of 89. He helped grow Ukrop's Super Markets into a Richmond institution that became a fixture of central Virginia life for decades. Coverage of his death is drawing reflections on the family-run grocery chain's role in the region and his place in Richmond's business community.