Posted on 09/05/2012 8:51:54 PM PDT by tobyhill
The parent company of the Albertsons supermarket chain is closing 26 stores nationwide, including 18 in Southern California, as it tries to overcome sharp operating losses and stiff price competition from big-box rivals.
Supervalu Inc. said late Wednesday that the closings are part of a decision to eliminate about 60 stores nationwide, primarily in its Albertsons and Save-A-Lot chains. Albertsons will have 228 stores in California after the closures.
Among the Albertsons locations in Southern California scheduled to be closed by December are stores in Long Beach, Glendale, Northridge and Van Nuys. A store in Culver City closed last month.
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There’s a Basque restaurant in Chino that I love, and it’s still there. When I was a kid, it was located out in the middle of an empty field right across from the railroad tracks, but now it’s all built up around there — dollar stores, payday loan and check cashing joints, and full of shaved head white t-shirt wearing mutant gangbangers. Descendants of the farm workers, no doubt.
Of course, the only problem with the area and the people is that they need hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars spent on them, which would only be making things fair. The president assures me this. He knows how to persuade people to do his bidding and stuff.
If it’s the same restaurant we went there once, and yes, it was in the middle of nowhere. Wasn’t there a good-sized Basque population that worked at all those dairies back then? I remember that they served you “family-style” and that the beef tongue was delicious. My best friend’s dad worked for Carnation Genetics as an artificial inseminator for all those cows and he was kept mighty busy. My friend is now the executive director of one of the cattle breed associations.
They closed nearly all the Albertson’s a few years ago in the Orlando area. At one time in Orlando they did quite well, and were quite competitive. WalMart and Publix pretty much outperformed A-sons on price and quality. A/sons stores are either now Publix or the Hispanic-targeted Sedano’s
in todays ad, they brag about a small can of Hormel chili for ONLY $2 dollars a can.....even in these times you can pick it up for about a dollar at other stores, and not even on a special sale....
there's a Fred Meyer across the street...they have clothing,shoes,garden items and plants, AND a huge food store....while their prices can be high, each week they almost always have coupons that are good deals...it pulls people in to buy the other stuff..
We’re thinking of the same place. On Center St. It’s called Centro Basco. European style dining, they serve in courses and the tongue is the delicacy.
I haven’t been back to SoCal for years, but I know that everything has changed. It’s just one unbroken megalopolis from the foothills of San Bernardino to Santa Monica. I wouldn’t move back to SoCal even if I had more money than David Bowie.
Last time I visited the ‘Inland Empire’ (pfft, that silly name) there was a stage 2 smog alert in effect that looked and smelled like atmosphere on the planet Venus. And it was 106 degrees. I couldn’t wait to start the nine hour drive back north up the I-395 to Nevada, and that is one soul-breaking drive until I get into Yosemite country and it starts looking like my home.
I don’t recall it ever being called the Inland Empire while I lived there, but I left at 14, so perhaps I just never heard the term. Back then, we were the place that everyone else looked to for new ideas, new fashions, new music, new trends, new industries. My fifth grade teacher was a Bataan death march survivor and my 6th grade teacher’s hair had turned snow white overnight in Vietnam. What are the chances that such a pair are teaching youngsters in that school today?
Obamaconomy is so bad that even a grimy Albertsons supermarket that smells like a Mexican carniceria has food prices like only Whole Foods market had back when Bush was President. Plus, so many Americans are on food stamps that someone has to pay using real dollars, and that someone is us.
Face it, America: The dollar is the new peso. Gasoline isn’t $4.50 a gallon... It’s $1.89 a gallon in pre-Obama money, but youre paying with dollars that effectively are worth $0.45.
Aren’t any of the common people realizing that a Big Mac “value meal” costs $6.95 yet? Two small mocha Frappucinos at Starbucks is $9.00? Anyone voting for four more years of this shit is completely high.
“Southern California: The land where if you’re middle-aged, you could really be taking an unnecessary risk by going back and visiting the neighborhood you grew up in and the high school you graduated from 25+ years ago. “
It’s not only Southern Cali. It’s all over the country. The third world and it’s “cultures” are expanding rapidly.
I’m getting great deals at fast food places on those rare occasions I can afford to eat at one, especially on chicken sandwiches. Both Burger King and Church’s have tasty regular-sized sandwiches for one dollar. Milk is much cheaper here in the Dallas area than it was in Biloxi.
Seem to remember that one of the heads was a major Democratic donor. This seems to be a way Democrats do things. Corporations get controlled by a boss, CEO who makes huge donations to the Democratic party, then the whole business goes bankrupt. It is basically looting. This was done by Bernie Schwartz with Loral Space and Communications, while money was funneled to the DNC and Clinton.
“Face it, America: The dollar is the new peso. Gasoline isn’t $4.50 a gallon... It’s $1.89 a gallon in pre-Obama money, but youre paying with dollars that effectively are worth $0.45.”
Everybody knows; the word is out. We’re losing our Stewart’s Root Beer (& grill) because you have tables with unoccupied waitresses sitting in them at what should be busy times (lunch, dinner); we just lost our PathMark supermarket as well (and I think K-Mart is about to go - it is a ghost town). The fast-food places survive (but aren’t as busy as before) by people cobbling together items from the value menus.
The unreported-but-obvious inflation, combined with the horrible employment situation (not just the raw figures, but the decline in “good” jobs), should easily end Obama’s tenure in November.
Albertsons never had a unionized workforce here in Florida and still failed.
As a company they were doing fine but purchased a coupole other chains to try to stay competetive but in doing so incured too much debt which is why they had to raise their prices as much as they did, while wally world continued to own the market.
“When we shop, it is always Wal Mart. Can’t afford those fancy schmancy union stores.”
It is inevitable; my wife and I make a list, and she goes first to Wal-Mart to get what she can there before going to a chain supermarket to get those things Wal-Mart doesn’t sell (cold cuts and such). The new normal...
Sams generally has okay meat prices if you buy in bulk and
don’t mind fewer varieties of cuts. In Virginia, they have the lowest pork prices of any of the food chains I have ever seen; stable as well, at least over the past 5 years or so!
“Southern Cal; huh? GOOD! I want to see that liberal cesspool go under.”
You do know that Orange County voted Republican in 2008, right?
Remember how busy Lowe’s, Home Depot, Ace Hardware and the car dealers were back in the Bush years?
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