Former Southern Family Head Opens Own Store

SN STAFF

MEMPHIS — The former general manager of Southern Family Markets has opened a new grocery store here, Cloverleaf Market.

Jeff Burkhead, who was named general manager and senior vice president of Birmingham, Ala.-based Southern Family Markets in 2007, left the chain earlier this year to operate a former Piggly Wiggly store he acquired here, according to a report in the Commercial Appeal newspaper.

Burkhead was a former executive with Memphis-based chain Seessel’s, which was acquired by Bruno’s Supermarkets, a precursor of the Southern Family chain.