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Sedano’s, Orlando, FL
together to get ripe, just-picked produce fresh from the elds to our nearby stores — ensuring that when you bite into a Florida strawberry or a Georgia peach, it’ll taste as fresh as if you’d picked it yourself. When we can get wonderful fruits and vegetables right in the states where we operate, you can bet that’s exactly what we do,” according to its website.
SEDANO’S
Since its beginnings shortly after the Castro takeover of Cuba, Sedano’s Supermar- kets has supplied its customers with Hispanic products that return the avor of foods in their home countries. Starting in Hialeah, FL, in 1962 as a small neighborhood grocery store, Sedano’s is one of the largest, independently owned U.S. Hispanic supermarket chain. Its
34 stores in South Florida and Central Florida serve an expanding Hispanic community.
Started by the Guerra and Herran families, Sedano’s is run as a family business and oper- ates most of its 27 stores in the Miami area. Other stores are in Hollywood, Pembroke Pines, North Lauderdale and in the Orlando area. Sedano’s is the largest member of Super- valu-owned Associated Grocers of Florida.
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