Grocery Shopping Confidential

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Ever wonder where John Catsimatidis, owner, president, chairman and CEO of Gristedes buys his groceries? Take a guess. In a Q&A with the Real Deal, Catsimatidis answers the where-do-you-buy question with this: "At Gristedes—and I pay for them. We even—what's the word, schlep?—we schlep them out to the Hamptons." [The Real Deal]