Henry Detwiler: From a 10x20 egg tent to a thriving, 6-store grocery business

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The grandson of a butcher, Henry Detwiler says he realized growing up that he liked the retail side more than the processing side of the food industry. 

While he was in school — he went up to 8th grade — he worked in the butcher shop, making things like sausage and scrapple. When he was about 16, Detwiler recalls he started selling produce in the summer at a little farm market in Pennsylvania. On a successful Saturday, he says, he might have sold 5,000 ears of corn.