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No end seen for market strike. Labor dispute between employees of Vons Pavilions, Albertsons and Ralphs grocery stores.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33101
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 16, 2003
Pages
p. 1, 9
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 16, 2003
Pages
p. 1, 9
Subjects
Albertsons
Grocery Stores
Labor strikes
Ralphs
Vons Pavilions
Item ID
33298AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia-based Vons/Pavilions is negotiating with the Teamsters to avoid a possible strike.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper24656
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 4, 2002
Pages
p. B5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 4, 2002
Pages
p. B5
Subjects
Vons/Pavilions
Strikes
Item ID
24846AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Steve Burd, Safeway chairman and CEO, told analysts that parent company of Arcadia-based Vons/Pavilions expects to continue rebounding from the 5-month labor strike that ended March 2004. Safeway reversed losses with a $202.7 million fourth-quarter profit in 2004.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29428
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 22, 2005
Pages
p. C3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 22, 2005
Pages
p. C3
Subjects
Safeway
Vons / Pavilions --profits and earnings
Labor strikes
Item ID
29612AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Last winter's 4 1/2 month strike had a devastating impact on Safeway Inc., parent company of Vons/Pavilion headquartered in Arcadia. First quarter profits fell 73.5 % to $43.1 million from $162.6 million during the same quarter for the prior year.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper28710
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 23, 2004
Pages
p. B3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 23, 2004
Pages
p. B3
Subjects
Business & Industry - Safeway Inc. -- Vons/Pavilion -- profits
United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW)
Supermarkets & grocery stores
Labor union disputes -- strikes
Item ID
28897AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Safeway Inc.'s profit slid 4% in the second quarter as the nation's number 3 supermarket chain continued to battle lingering effects from last winter's polarizing labor strikes.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper28858
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 28, 2004
Pages
p. B5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 28, 2004
Pages
p. B5
Subjects
Business and Industry
Supermarkets
Strikes --Labor disputes
Safeway Inc. --Vons/Pavilions
Financial profits
Item ID
29049AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Shares of Safeway Inc. fell 4.5 percent after the Pleasanton-based parent company of Arcadia-based Vons/Pavilions said it expects second-quarter earnings will be below Wall Street estimates.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29509
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 4, 2005
Pages
p. B3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 4, 2005
Pages
p. B3
Subjects
Safeway Inc.
Vons/Pavilions
Business and Industry
Supermarkets
Item ID
29693AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Safeway Inc., parent company of Arcadia-based Vons/Pavilions, is changing operations to comply with a new law that calls for a 25 percent reduction in California's carbon emissions by the year 2020.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30222
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 3, 2006
Pages
p. B3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 3, 2006
Pages
p. B3
Subjects
Business and Industry
Energy
Environment
Safeway Incorporated
Vons/Pavilions
Item ID
30409AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Safeway shares rose 10% but analysts question the future. Arcadia-based Vons/Pavilions, which is owned by Safeway, faces a tough food environment and the many problems confronting the economy.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper24594
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 27, 2002
Pages
p. B3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 27, 2002
Pages
p. B3
Subjects
Vons/Pavilions
Safeway Inc.
Economic Conditions
Grocery Stores
Item ID
24785AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A large demonstration was held at the Vons division headquarters on Michillinda Avenue in an effort by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union to get the corporation to settle the labor dispute that has lasted for more than three months.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper27388
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 22, 2004
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 22, 2004
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Demonstrations
Strikes
Vons
Item ID
27587AN
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Newspaper Index
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Eighty local Falun Gong practitioners go on a 268-hour vigil representing the 268 practitioners who have died from persecution in China. Three Arcadia women began a 7-day hunger strike in front of the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30051
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 30, 2001
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 30, 2001
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Falun Gong
Strikes
Protests
Chinese Consulate
Zhang, Xiuhua
Zhang, Renee
Ying, Shue Quing
Item ID
30238AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Safeway, Inc., the parent company of The Vons Companies, Inc., announced layoffs which will include 28 workers at the Vons Pavilions headquarters in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25638
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 11, 2003
Pages
p. B3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 11, 2003
Pages
p. B3
Subjects
Vons Companies Inc.
Item ID
25838AN
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Residents in much of the San Gabriel Valley can now shop for groceries online from Arcadia based Vons Company. Vons.com offers the same products as found in the stores at the same price, but charges $9.95 for delivery.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper24386
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 27, 2002
Pages
p. B3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 27, 2002
Pages
p. B3
Subjects
Vons Company
Pavilions
Online Shopping
Item ID
24577AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Story of funeral service for slain grocery store owner Adel Karas.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper21710
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 20, 2001
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 20, 2001
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Karas, Adel
Item ID
21928AN
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Newspaper Index
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A possible transient allegedly robbed a Wells Fargo branch inside an Albertson's grocery store on Live Oak Avenue in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper22185
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 12, 2001
Pages
p. A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 12, 2001
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Bank robbery
Item ID
22400AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Santa Anita Park workers who live in the backstretch may face eviction. The workers' rooms may not meet codes.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper18822
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 8, 2000
Pages
p. A1 w/photo
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 8, 2000
Pages
p. A1 w/photo
Subjects
Santa Anita Park
Item ID
19066AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia Chamber of Commerce takes Bank of America, Ralphs Grocery Co., Albertsons and Washington Mutual to task for not joining the Chamber of Commerce.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper23156
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 20, 2002
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 20, 2002
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Arcadia Chamber of Commerce
Item ID
23364AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia Mayor Mickey Segal's Prayer Breakfast, March 29, to feature Bill Davila, the Arcadia resident known as the Vons Grocery Company spokesperson.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33448
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 14, 2002
Pages
p. 8
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 14, 2002
Pages
p. 8
Subjects
Davila, Bill--biography
Mayor's Prayer Breakfast
Item ID
33643AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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The FBI will investigate the murder of grocery store owner Adel Karas. His death is believed to be a hate crime.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper21709
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 18, 2001
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 18, 2001
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Crime
Karas, Adel
Item ID
21927AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A new Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market has opened in Arcadia. It is owned by Tesco, a British food giant. Tesco's labor practices have come under fire for relying on part-time workers, which may limit the ability of workers to earn a living wage.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30787
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 10, 2007
Pages
p. Local 3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 10, 2007
Pages
p. Local 3
Subjects
Business and Industry
Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Markets
Grocery Stores
Tesco
Item ID
30975AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Bill Davila, former head of the Vons Grocery chain, will be the guest speaker at the 28th annual Mayor's Prayer Breakfast.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper22938
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 28, 2002
Pages
p. A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 28, 2002
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Prayer breakfast
Davila, Bill
Item ID
23146AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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