Fred Meyer Chief Elects To Step Down

The last of the old guard of Fred Meyer Inc. executives is retiring early, nearly a half century after he began his career for the grocery and retail chain as a carry-out boy.

Cyril K. “Cy” Green, the president and chief operating officer, had planned to leave Fred Meyer at age 65 on June 11, but will retire about four months early on Feb. 3, the last day of the company’s 1995 fiscal year.

Robert G. Miller, Fred Meyer chairman and chief executive, asked Green on Monday to retire after Green returned from a short vacation.

“I’m not greatly surprised,” said Green, who joined the company in 1947. “It wasn’t a shock.”

With Green’s departure, Fred Meyer will lose the last of the executives who rose through the ranks under company founder Fred G. Meyer, who died in 1978 at age 92.

Green said he told Miller in 1991 that he would like to retire at 65 but would leave sooner if Miller thought it best for the company.