Hello, The Market Basket Chain grew into one of the popular stores in So Cal. But, it had to compete with the other stores the Kroger company owned. (Market Basket then became a Kroger own store chain) as the years rolled by, what ever large grocery store in your own neighborhood, whether it was Market Basket, Hughes, Alpha Beta or others, the Kroger name was never a store ***le brand. They just owned almost every thing as the years progressed. The Market Basket chain was founded with a single store in Pasadena in 1930. By 1963, the year the Studio City store was opened, the company had 56 stores throughout L.A. and the surrounding regions. In October of that year the chain was acquired by Kroger, providing them a beachhead (no pun intended) in the vital Southern California market. Prior to this time, Kroger had no stores west of Kansas. Jnaki As we grew up going to the local Hughes, Lucky or Alpha Beta stores, the brand grew with purchases of other So Cal "going out of business" branches. Now, Kroger is one of the top two companies with ownership of so many name brand top stores that their recent joining of forces with the Albertson brand of company own stores was deemed a monopoly and all negotiations stopped. For now. So, someone is looking out for all of us out West in our own grocery brand shopping weekly or bi-weekly. YRMV
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