Grocery stalwart announces retirement After roughly 28 years at the helm of the Arlington, Va.-based, 1,800-member National Grocers Association, Thomas K. Zaucha announced he will retire from the group in the summer of 2010. Zaucha, who worked at his grandmother’s grocery store when he was a child, was president of the Cooperative Food Distributors of America from 1978 to 1982. That year, the CFDA merged to become the NGA, of which Zaucha was named president and CEO. Zaucha also worked in government relations and public affairs positions in the 1970s for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, the National Association of Food Chains and the National Canners… Read More