Opinion: It’s become ‘increasingly difficult’ to operate local stores
Ashley Harris
Ashley Harris is vice president of finance at Stepherson’s Superlo Foods, which was founded by her grandfather and two grand-uncles. She is the former chairman of the Tennessee Grocers Education Foundation, currently a member of the board of directors for Tennessee Grocers and Convenience Store Association, on the membership committee for the National Grocer Association Department of Research and Education and president and member of the board of directors of SpayMemphis.
Thieves walk out of our grocery stores with loaded baskets multiple times a day, every day, adding up to millions of dollars in merchandise a year.
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