California Travel Tips
Alpha Beta
Published on: April 09, 2016
You can date yourself by your knowledge of the grocery chains a single store has operated as. For instance, those younger than 25 years of age are unlikely to know about Alpha Beta. The first store opened in Pomona, Calif. in 1917 and by 1977 there were more than 250 Alpha Beta stores in California alone. Alpha Beta had become a national chain that would be gone in less than 20 years. Many Alpha Beta stores in California were taken over by Lucky stores, which in turn became Albertsons. Others were rebranded as Ralphs or Food 4 Less, and the Alpha Beta name ceased to exist by September 1995. When I walk into a Big Lots near my home I recall that it was once an Alpha Beta.
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