Ralphs is a large American supermarket chain in the Southern California region and the largest subsidiary of Kroger based in Cincinnati. It is the oldest chain west of the Mississippi River and by 2015, there are 200 locations. Kroger also operates stores under the name Food 4 Less and Foods Co. in California.
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Ralphs Grocery Company was founded in 1873 by George Albert Ralphs. The original store is located at Sixth and Spring Streets in Los Angeles, California. In the 20th century, Ralphs became a grocery pioneer, offering a supermarket with a cashier at a distributed location. The company employs a leading architect in designing his shop, and the former Ralphs Grocery Store store built in 1929 in Westwood Village has been photographed by Ansel Adams, declaring the Historic Cultural Monument, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In the 1980s, he created a chain of supermarkets called The Giant , which failed, but the concept came back with a corporate merger with the Food 4 Less discount chain. In 1994, Ralphs was acquired by the Yucaipa Company for $ 1.5 billion. Yucaipa has ABC Markets, Alpha Beta, Boys Markets, and Cala Foods. Soon, all ABC Markets, Alpha Betas, and Children's Markets are branded as Ralphs. At the same time, Food 4 Less is combined with Ralphs. In 1997, Yucaipa sold Ralphs Grocery Company to Fred Meyer, Inc., owner of several chains in the west. Soon, the Ralphs Marketplace store begins to open; these stores are based on Fred Meyer's model but without clothes. At the same time, they also acquired the Hughes Family Markets store chain of Hughes Family Markets . In October 1998, the holding company, Fred Meyer, joined The Kroger Company of Cincinnati, Ohio.
In 1999, Ralphs bought about 30 Albertsons and Lucky stores, mostly in northern California. The shops were divested as a result of the merger of Albertsons and American Stores. Ralphs operated the store until January 2006, when they announced that all but one Ralph in northern California would be closed. In August 2006, one Ralph remaining in northern California was given a 60-day closing notice. Also, in August 2006, Ralphs completed a plan to sell Eleven (out of thirteen remaining) Cala-Bell Stores to Harley DeLano, who previously managed the chain. Northern California Ralphs expansion did not go as planned.
On July 20, 2007, Ralphs opened a store of 50,000 square feet (4,600m 2 ) at 9th and Hope Street in the neighborhood of South Park in downtown Los Angeles. This is the first fully-run self-service center in 50 years. In 1950, Ralphs closed stores on 7th Street and Figueroa Street.
Today, Ralphs competes with Albertsons, Vons (a division of Albertsons Companies LLC), and Stater Bros.. The slogan is "Good Food, Real Low Price!" Ralphs is the current market leader in Southern California.
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strike 2003-2004
Ralphs Grocery Company has a contract with United Food and Commercial Workers, the largest wholesale union in the United States. In late 2003 and early 2004, Ralphs locked down his UFCW members in sympathy with a Vons competitor (owned by Safeway Inc.) in Southern California, after UFCW had announced a strike against Vons. Problems in contract negotiations include health benefits and wage structures, which are needed by supermarkets to reduce costs and stay competitive in the face of the emergence of discount chains such as Walmart. In March 2004, the strike ended with a settlement that was considered a win for the shopping chain - new employees would be on a much lower salary scale than the existing workers and receive less than generous health benefits.
On October 16, 2006, Ralphs agreed to pay $ 70 million to settle allegations of a crime that illegally hired back locked employees using false names and Social Security numbers during the strike. Qualified UFCW members receive $ 50 million from settlement and the remaining is paid a fine to the federal government.
In popular culture
Universal Orlando has a Ralphs grocery store in the Beverly Hills area.
Photorealist painter Robert Cottingham described the Ralphs supermarket in the 1968 "RalphÃ, II" painting, which was exhibited by the Milwaukee Art Museum.
The Coen Brothers 1998 film The Big Lebowski opened with the main character, The Dude, played by Jeff Bridges, walking through Ralphs supermarket. Later in the film, The Dude is wanted by Malibu Chief of Police, who, upon finding his Ralphs Card, asks, "Is this just your ID form?" In the morgue, the character Walter Sobchak complains about the high price of a jar to hold a friend's ashes. After asking the funeral director, "Is there Ralph around here?", The scene cuts off at Walter overlooking the Pacific Ocean holding Folgers Coffee cans.
In the movie "Messiah of Evil", one of the main characters, Laura, follows a mysterious figure into an empty Ralphs supermarket, where he is chased, attacked, and eaten by zombies.
The mark for the Ralphs store appeared in the movie Dolemite of 1975.
In The Powerpuff Girls , there is a parody grocery store called "Malph".
Ralph's packaging parody is used as an envelope for the 1986 Album album by Public Image Ltd.
Ralphs supermarket's generic branded product line is featured prominently in the 1984 movie Repo Man ; almost all excellent products donated by supermarkets.
Ralphs can be seen in the action film Die Hard when John McClane sees that the fire truck takes the long route away from Nakatomi Plaza, where he and his wife are trapped.
In the podcast radio drama Welcome to Night Vale, this chain is sometimes mentioned in the context of "the hole in the empty ground behind Ralphs." This is despite the lack of confirmation or evidence that the city of Night Vale is located in Southern California.
In an episode of Mad Men , Don Draper can be seen carrying Ralphs bags while visiting a friend in southern California.
In the 1992 film Forever Young with Mel Gibson, after Gibson's character wakes up in the present to find him frozen for the last 50 years, he goes to a pay phone to call a friend of his friend. the past, across the street from a pay phone is a Ralphs store. Then while trying to tell someone where his friend from the past lived the character Gibson said "There's a place called Ralph's there now."
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References
- Ralphs History
External links
- Ralphs Website
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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