Heir to Supermarket Fortune Dead at 62
Market of Choice CEO Rick Wright died at his home in Eugene, Oregon, this weekend.
Courtesy of Market of Choice
Rick Wright, CEO of Oregon grocery store chain Market of Choice, whose father founded the business, has died. A press release announcing the death said Wright, 62, died in his Eugene, Oregon, mansion on Sunday of “natural causes.” Wright had served as CEO since his father, Richard “Dick” Wright Sr., retired in 1997. Wright Sr. founded the company in 1979 with a single grocery store in Cottage Grove, Oregon. The younger Wright was responsible for rebranding his father’s stores under the “Market of Choice” name. Under his leadership, the chain expanded from four locations to 12 and began to focus on locally grown food from independent farmers. Market of Choice also noted its CEO’s philanthropic efforts in its Monday press release, including his support for the Oregon food bank Food For Lane County and the Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in Portland. Wright is survived by his wife, Debbie, children Zach, Staci, and Sydney, and mother, Marsha.
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