TUPELO • For nearly 50 years, Ken Jeter Store Equipment has been quietly successful, installing commercial equipment in restaurants, supermarkets, convenience stores and service industry businesses.
But people outside of those businesses often don’t realize the store has been around that long and don’t even know where it is.
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