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• Riverside, Calif., Supermarkets Aim to Attract More Customers in 2002.

  - 2002-01-05

  By Jared O. Wadley, The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 5--Supermarket chains with Inland area stores are creating their own shopping lists of things that might attract more customers in 2002. Two years ago, Ralphs Grocery Co., which...

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• Supermarkets Lure Busy Fast-Food Addicts with Meal Centers.(Originated from The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.)

  - 1997-01-31

  Jan. 31--At least twice a week, Patty Taylor decides she doesn't want to cook dinner. Until recently, ordering fast food had been the answer in the Taylor household. But shoppers like Taylor are being wooed by the growing number of supermarkets...

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• Ralphs Grocery Closes its San Jacinto, Calif., Store.(Originated from The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.)

  - 1996-10-27

  SAN JACINTO, Calif.--Oct. 27--Ralphs Grocery Co. closed its San Jacinto store this week, but the grocer may open another store in the Hemet-San Jacinto area within a few years, a company official said Friday. It is the third Ralphs store to...

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• Ralphs Grocery Co.'s Cuts Could Spark Food-Price Battle.(Originated from The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.)

  - 1996-09-13

  Sep. 13--Ralphs Grocery Co., which operates 16 stores in Riverside County, said it is cutting prices on 10,000 items. One supermarket analyst said Ralphs' price cuts may lead to better deals for all grocery shoppers if other chains lower their prices in response. "It's good news...

  Tags: Ralphs Grocery Co., Washington D.C.-based Food Marketing Institute

• Officials Claim Food-4-Less Doesn't Want Any Competition.(Originated from The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.)

  - 1996-06-06

  BANNING, Calif.--Jun. 6--It's not likely that Banning residents dismayed over the closing of Ralphs will see another neighborhood grocery store any time soon, Banning city officials said Wednesday. Ralphs Grocery Co., which has 20 years remaining on its lease of the Fourth Street site, rejected a...

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• Ralphs Grocery in Banning, Calif., to Close.(Originated from The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.)

  - 1996-02-28

  Feb. 28--Yucaipa Cos., which owns Ralphs Grocery Co., is expected to close a store in Banning and convert outlets in Riverside and Beaumont to Food 4 Less stores, an official said Tuesday. Within the next few months, Ralphs' Beaumont store, at East 14th Street and Beaumont...

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• Smith's Food in Deal with Arizona Grocery Chain.(Originated from The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.)

  - 1996-01-30

  Jan. 30--The Yucaipa Cos., already Southern California's dominant grocery store operator with controlling interest in Ralphs Grocery Co. and Food 4 Less, is spreading its interests eastward. The Century City-based privately held investment company -- formed by Yucaipa businessman Ronald W. Burkle -- has reached a...

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