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Friends and family of Rick Wright are feeling a profound sense of loss, as they remember a man whose generosity and commitment to helping others touched many people and organizations in Lane County, well beyond the Market of Choice grocery store chain he spent his life building.
The community learned June 30 that Wright, chief executive officer of Market of Choice, died June 29 of natural causes at his home in Eugene. He was 62.
What would later become Market of Choice began in 1977 with a single grocery store in Cottage Grove owned by Wright’s father, Richard Wright Sr. The company grew to include Price Chopper and Thriftway stores, and later under Rick Wright’s leadership the company reorganized and became first PC Market and then Market of Choice…