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Since , Jenai Sullivan Wall has served as chairman and chief executive officer of Foodland Super Market, Ltd., Hawai'i's largest supermarket chain..
If not for a cold winter in Buffalo, N.Y., Maurice J. Sullivan would not have returned to Hawaii to help his future mother-in-law open Foodland, the state's first and largest supermarket chain.
Sullivan was stationed at Hickam Field during World War II, where he was in charge of its commissary and mess hall, said Jenai Sullivan Wall, his daughter and now Foodland's president and chief executive officer.
In his work, Sullivan met See Goo Lau, a woman who owned Lanikai Store in Kailua.
"She befriended him and introduced him to local farmers, and they became friends," Wall said.
"After the war, she tried to get him to work at her store in Lanikai."
But "Sully," who moved to America from his native Ireland at 18 and shortly thereafter began his career in the food industry working for the A&P supermarket chain, wanted to return to the mainland.
"He said that it was winter, and within a week he turned around and came back to Hawaii," Wall said.
The rest is history.
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