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Jack in the Box announced it will no longer buy hamburger patties from Vons. This comes a week after a severe food poisoning outbreak linked to Jack in the Box left 2 children dead and at least 75 people hospitalized.

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Newspaper
Star Tribune
Date
January 28, 1993
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p. A-1
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Star Tribune
Date
January 28, 1993
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p. A-1
Subjects
Vons Market
Item ID
273AN
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Jack in the Box officials blamed a food poisoning outbreak that led to one death and the hospitalization of at least 70 persons from Seattle to San Diego on a shipment of contaminated hamburgers traced to Arcadia-based Vons. Vons has denied its meat processing plant in El Monte was the source of the problem.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper267
Newspaper
Star Tribune
Date
January 22, 1993
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p. A-1
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Star Tribune
Date
January 22, 1993
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p. A-1
Subjects
Vons Market
Item ID
267AN
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Sometime at the end of this year, Vons Grocery Co. plans to open one of its new Pavilions grocery stores just west of the Hinshaw's Department Store on Baldwin Avenue.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper840
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 23, 1986
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p. 1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 23, 1986
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Vons Market
Item ID
840AN
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Vons Market, which operates 328 grocery stores in Southern California, has moved its corporate headquarters from El Monte to Michillinda Avenue, between Sunset Boulevard and Huntington Drive. The 240,000 square foot building, a former May Co. store that closed in January 1989, will house 950 Vons employees.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 27, 1990
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 27, 1990
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p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Vons Market
May Company
Item ID
842AN
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The Vons Pavilion just west of Hinshaw's staged a grand opening, Wednesday, December 10.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper841
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 14, 1986
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p. 1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 14, 1986
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Vons Market
Item ID
841AN
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The Vons Co. headquartered in Arcadia, said Tuesday it will purchase 18 Williams Brothers Markets.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper837
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 5, 1991
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p. B-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 5, 1991
Pages
p. B-1
Subjects
Vons Companies
Item ID
837AN
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Construction of a Vons Market west of Baldwin Avenue between Duarte Road and Naomi Avenue may depend on whether the East Pasadena Water Company accepts the City Council's proposal allowing the city to extend its line into the water company's territory at the western end of the Vons development. The East Pasadena Water Company's lines are too small to be effective in case of fire.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper838
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 22, 1982
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 22, 1982
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Vons Market
Item ID
838AN
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Arcadia City Council moved forward Tuesday night in effort to bring a Vons supermarket into West Arcadia. First action was consolidation of nine lots at 745-809 West Naomi Ave. and 812-828 West. Duarte Road into one parcel. Approved 3-1

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 19, 1982
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p. 1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 19, 1982
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p. 1
Subjects
Vons Market
Item ID
839AN
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Von's Market

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 12, 1948 Section 3, p. 1
July 14, 1966 p. 1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 12, 1948 Section 3, p. 1
July 14, 1966 p. 1
Subjects
Business and Industry - Vons Market
Item ID
3741AN
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Arcadia-based "The Vons Cos" pays reservist employees who are called up for service the difference between their company salary and the military compensation they receive.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 25, 2003
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p. B3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 25, 2003
Pages
p. B3
Subjects
Vons Companies
Item ID
25396AN
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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.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 11, 2003
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p. B3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 11, 2003
Pages
p. B3
Subjects
Vons Companies Inc.
Item ID
25838AN
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Dennis Eck has been promoted from vice chairman and chief operating officer to President of Vons Co. He replaces Bill Davila, who officially retired as president of the company.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper58
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 5, 1992
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 5, 1992
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Vons Companies
Eck, Dennis
Davila, Bill
Item ID
58AN
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Arcadia-based Vons/Pavilions is negotiating with the Teamsters to avoid a possible strike.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 4, 2002
Pages
p. B5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 4, 2002
Pages
p. B5
Subjects
Vons/Pavilions
Strikes
Item ID
24846AN
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Former Vons chairman Roger E. Strangeland, dies at 74. He served as Vons' chairman and chief executive officer from 1984 to 1994.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper27835
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 5, 2004
Pages
p. B3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 5, 2004
Pages
p. B3
Subjects
Obituary
Vons Companies
Strangeland, Roger E
Item ID
28032AN
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Arcadia-based grocery chain Vons, a division of Safeway Inc., headquartered in Pleasanton, California, is closing its Vons supermarket at 2340 Foothill Boulevard, LaVerne, California. It has been there for 10 years and is underperforming.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32263
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 17, 2010
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p. A25
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 17, 2010
Pages
p. A25
Subjects
Grocery Stores
Vons -- Safeway Inc.
Item ID
32462AN
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Vons Companies will close 11 supermarkets, lay off 250 employees, and dramatically cut executive salaries and benefits following a $20.9 million quarterly loss.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper622
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 10, 1993
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p. A-1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 10, 1993
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Vons Companies
Item ID
622AN
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Freon leak causes Vons Pavilions supermarket in 700 block of West Naomi Avenue, Arcadia, to close. A worker accidentally broke a refrigerant pipe.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 21, 2016
Pages
p. 15
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 21, 2016
Pages
p. 15
Subjects
Grocery Stores
Vons Pavilions
Item ID
34619AN
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Grocery workers and community organizers protest outside Vons corporate offices in Arcadia, to push for better health care benefits in contract negotiations.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 29, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 29, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Labor unions
Protests
Vons employees
Item ID
32636AN
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The May Company outlet at Michillinda and Sunset will close in January. It will become corporate headquarters for the Vons Grocery Companies.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper795
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 14, 1988
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 14, 1988
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
May Co.
May Company
Vons Grocery Companies
Item ID
795AN
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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.

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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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