{"id":22424,"date":"2016-04-09T22:09:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T05:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=22424"},"modified":"2016-04-09T22:09:35","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T05:09:35","slug":"alpha-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/alpha-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha Beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/alphbeta.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0are\u00a0unlikely to know about Alpha Beta. The first store opened in Pomona, Calif. in 1917 and by 1977 there were more than 250 Alpha Beta\u00a0stores\u00a0in California alone. Alpha Beta had become a national chain that would be gone in less than 20 years. Many\u00a0Alpha Beta stores\u00a0 in California\u00a0were taken over by Lucky stores, which in turn became Albertsons. Others\u00a0were rebranded as Ralphs or Food 4 Less, and the Alpha Beta name ceased to exist by September 1995. \u00a0When I walk into a Big Lots near my home I recall that it was once an Alpha Beta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00a0are\u00a0unlikely to know about Alpha Beta. The first store opened in Pomona, Calif. in 1917 and by 1977 there were more than 250 Alpha Beta\u00a0stores\u00a0in California alone. Alpha Beta had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22424"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}