“Our line of meats and cheeses are second to none, and the consumer is going to choose our product more often than any competitor,” reasons Louis Eni Jr., president. However, when the chance for fair competition was taken away, the company decided to make its case to the public.
Dietz & Watson had been a part of the deli cases in Harris Teeter stores in the Charlotte, N.C., area, when the chain fielded some consumer requests to include Boar's Head deli products. However, Eni said, Boar's Head insisted on an exclusive arrangement, so other companies' products were taken out of the cases in about a dozen stores (Eni points out that the company still supplies a vast majority of Harris Teeter stores).