“Our philosophy is to expand when we’re financially able,” says Jim Kowalski, CEO of the Kowalski’s grocery store chain in the Twin Cities. They started when he and his wife and business partner, Mary Anne, purchased in June of 1983 their first store, a Red Owl on Grand Avenue in St. Paul. Jim had worked for Red Owl for 20 years before then.
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