The man who turned Sedano's Supermarkets into the largest Hispanic supermarket chain in the USA has died

October 18, 2020

Manuel Herrán, who turned Sedano's into the largest independently-owned Hispanic supermarket chain in the country, with stores from Orlando to Homestead, died on October 15 from complications of diabetes. He was 83 years old.

Manuel Agustín Herrán arrived from Cuba to Miami as an immigrant, offering generations of Cubans a taste of their long-lost country. But he himself was not Cuban.