Leigh Chase has been with Maine-based grocery store chain Hannaford supermarkets for 29 years. She began her corporate career as a retail operations support specialist, which led her into meat and seafood merchandising, and then to her current position as seafood category manager, where she is responsible "for delivering Hannaford’s strategy by focusing on fresh, local, healthy, priced right and great service."

In this exclusive interview with IntraFish, Chase explains what seafood suppliers have to do to get contracts to supply her company's 181 stores in the northeastern United States.