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- 12 Feb 2008 00:48
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Former Alpha Beta, 520 Workman Mill Road, Bassett, CA
- Replies: 6
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Re: Former Alpha Beta, 520 Workman Mill Road, Bassett, CA
This Ralphs store opened as Alpha Beta in 1961 as part of North Whittier Heights Shopping Center (search La Puente in mall-hall-of-fame.blogspot.com for a photo-postcard). It is obvious from the exterior architecture. It is now called Pacific Place Shopping Center. North Whittier Heights is the pre-...
- 07 Feb 2008 13:25
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Ralphs- Sepulveda and Vanowen, Van Nuys
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4797
Re: Ralphs- Sepulveda and Vanowen, Van Nuys
That Covina store mentioned by Jeff above is also a former AB (425 S Citrus). The old blue-grey AB interior remains (which means it has not been remodeled yet) and its ABC license is registered to "Alpha Beta Company", a phantom subsidiary of Ralphs that operates all Ralphs/FFL stores that...
- 06 Feb 2008 19:18
- Forum: History: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: RIP CompUSA 1984-2008
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9511
Re: RIP CompUSA 1984-2008
All SoCal Good Guys were converted to CompUSA or had their stores become superstores. This was the case to the now-closed Chino Spectrum store (Grand and CA71). It first opened as a Good Guys and after CompUSA acquired GG it became a CompUSA superstore with a GG department. There is now a "For ...
- 06 Feb 2008 19:11
- Forum: History: Specialty Retail Chains
- Topic: Federated Group (Home Electronics)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10173
Re: Federated Group (Home Electronics)
There was a store somewhere in City of Industry or nearby. Sometime in the late 1970's, my parents bought an old rectangular AM radio (with the circular dial). It was a Federated brand product. I'm not sure whether it was in Industry or the one mentioned in the earlier post in La Puente near Food4Le...
- 04 Feb 2008 12:36
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Stater Express, California Speedway Fontana
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2269
Stater Express, California Speedway Fontana
During NASCAR's Stater Bros 300 at the California Speedway in Fontana, the RV parking area is anchored by a relatively new type of Stater Bros store, called Stater Express (named after their customer checkout payment system of the same name). I just got the 2008 program guide from my Walnut store ye...
- 27 Jan 2008 14:15
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Albertsons had department stores
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2991
Albertsons had department stores
In the 1950's, Albertsons had a small department store chain and a drugstore chain. What were the banner names and where were their stores located?
luckysaver
luckysaver
- 27 Jan 2008 13:52
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Historical Ralphs subsidiaries
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8154
Re: Historical Ralphs subsidiaries
I was at Food4Less yesterday (West Covina) and I noticed one of their house brands, Ranchers Pride eggs. I looked closely at the label to find that it is distributed by FFLS Inc of La Habra CA. I decoded it as Food4Less Stores Inc , which is the Ralphs subsidiary that oversees all west coast Food4Le...
- 27 Jan 2008 13:46
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Ralphs Giant/Former Zody's Locations
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8637
Ralphs Giant/Former Zody's Locations
(Split from the West Covina thread--Moderator)
Anybody have a list of the 14-16 Ralphs Giant superstore locations in SoCal? This would be helpful in my San Gabriel Valley research. I know one of them is now the Food4Less (previously Zodys) on 615 Azusa in West Covina.
luckysaver
Anybody have a list of the 14-16 Ralphs Giant superstore locations in SoCal? This would be helpful in my San Gabriel Valley research. I know one of them is now the Food4Less (previously Zodys) on 615 Azusa in West Covina.
luckysaver
- 27 Jan 2008 13:44
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Stater Brothers - Whittier Bl, West Whittier
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7359
Re: Stater Brothers - Whittier Bl, West Whittier
Staters took over my local store (Walnut store 168, Amar and Grand) in 1999 as part of the Albertsons divestiture and kept the Albertsons layout and decor (blue-grey scheme) until 2005 when started with a light remodel, then a full remodel in 2006, removing all traces of Albertsons that were still l...
- 27 Jan 2008 13:33
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: historical Albertsons grocery divisions
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4367
historical Albertsons grocery divisions
After the merger with American Stores, Albertsons redid Netrefill.com, which was the former online prescription service started by American through its Savon and Osco stores (dba RxAmerica Inc). On the top of the page were the logos of all of the banners of the new Albertsons family. What happened t...
- 24 Jan 2008 13:01
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Alpha Beta's Travel Agency and Nursery divisions
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2517
Alpha Beta's Travel Agency and Nursery divisions
Esther Cramer (Alpha Beta corporate historian) in her 1973 book The Alpha Beta Story wrote that in late 1973 the company was developing standalone Nursery Stores and Travel Agency offices to add to the Alpha Beta, FAD (Food4Less type no frills store), HyLo Drug, and Alphy's Restaurants chains. Anybo...
- 24 Jan 2008 12:56
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: other historical operations of Albertsons/American Stores
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3522
Re: other historical operations of Albertsons/American Stores
Does anybody have a list of Skaggs-Albertsons locations in California? Based on some of the information I read from the Times archives for my research, these locations were actually Skaggs Payless Drug Centers that were about 70,000 square feet in size that has a 20,000 sq ft Albertsons Food Store i...
- 21 Jan 2008 16:08
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: other historical operations of Albertsons/American Stores
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3522
other historical operations of Albertsons/American Stores
What were the former locations of these Albertsons/American Stores banners in Southern California?
- Monte Mart (Albertsons)
- SuperSaver (American and Albertsons versions)
- Jewel T (21 stores, prior to American's takeover of Jewel Companies)
luckysaver
- Monte Mart (Albertsons)
- SuperSaver (American and Albertsons versions)
- Jewel T (21 stores, prior to American's takeover of Jewel Companies)
luckysaver
- 21 Jan 2008 15:53
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Smith's Food King in Socal--with store locations
- Replies: 42
- Views: 46445
Re: Smith's Food King in Socal--with store locations
Amar/Puente in La Puente is currently Big Saver Foods, previously Lucky (before the Albertsons merger). It's been a Lucky since 1984 after acquiring all the SFK sites. The store showed up in SFK ads as early as about 1967.
luckysaver
luckysaver
- 21 Jan 2008 15:47
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: West Covina area grocery history
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5286
Re: West Covina area grocery history
rnaikens, North of the 10, the other original Smith Food King was at the Arrow Citrus Center (now Superior), at 1375 N Citrus in Covina. It was expanded as Lucky Savon in the '80's. Azusa/Rowland (375 N Azusa) has always been that nice large Stater Bros. That address does not show up in the Times ar...