I remember as a kid in the 70s, whenever my mother would go grocery shopping, she’d always say “ok, I’m going to Lucky’s” and we knew it was that weeks grocery shopping. I don’t think she ever shopped anywhere else. In the 80s, I appreciated our Luckys, they always had whatever I needed. Miss them, miss those times.
I remember when Gemco was owned by Lucky. Gemco's grocery department sold Lucky groceries, and for less than Lucky grocery stores. Then the Gemco's became Target stores.
Lucky had good prices at the time. Mother went there and her grocery bill was less than it was at the competition. Now the Grocery Outlet is expanding, and has good prices. The milk sold at Grocery Outlet has the Lady Lee name on the bottle. Lady Lee was one of Lucky's former store brand labels. A lot of people now shop at Grocery Outlet.
We frequented the Berkeley store during the war, always seem to have what my parents needed. I also remember going to a place in Oakland where they had wheels of cheese and many different types of smoked fish, my dad’s favorite place.
Still have them in California. Our son started as a bag boy back when he turned 16. He worked their for 10 years, until he became a firefighter. This was back in the 90s
The Alhambra store has been gone for a while now. . Growing up back in the day we were Lucky shoppers and always went for Lady Lee, the store label items.
Gemco and Lucky’s were our fave stores for years, when Lucky’s was bought out by Albertsons we went back to Stater Brothers. The Glendora California Gemco store had EVERYTHING. If you go back a little further we liked White Front that had a grill with killer burgers. A little further back and it was Alpha Beta and next door was the Coronet 5&10 store. Man I gave away my age on this one.🤷🏼♂️😂
We used to have a subsidiary of Luck here in FL called Kash-n-Karry which became Sweet Bay, which became Winn Dixie and now becoming Aldi. It’s a revolving door of grocery stores here with the only stability is Publix
Lucky. Still the low price leader. Key Buy savings. Three’s a Crowd. Lady Lee generics! 24 hour stores in So Cal. Stephanie Edwards! We LOVED Lucky. Devastated when Albertsons took over.
Pretty much all of Northern California was devastated too. Albertsons had a bad rep in many areas of NorCal, and when the stores had their name changed to Albertsons their business tanked. Good news for me though, because by 1994 I was driving for Safeway!
I grew up in Los Angeles near LAX. In the mid-1960s, Lucky purchased the chain of "Shoppers Markets". Now my old store located at 8701 Lincold Blvd is a "Ralph's" which is part of Krogers.
If i remember. Grocery outlet started to use the lucky name on their stores. Which waa explained that albertsons could lose the trademark if not used for years. Which right after they rebranded certain stores as luckys. To save the trademark.
I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and I did shop there. I dated a woman who worked for Lucky. She even asked me to apply for a job there. I did, got an interview for a new store that was opening up in the area. I unfortunately didn't get the job, I did call the store often about having come aboard if an employee quit or was dismissed for not passing the probationary period. After awhile those schmucks would not take my phone calls anymore.
Scolari’s is still around? That’s great we use to have a bunch of them back in the 1970’s and 1980’s here in central California and they were great and locally owned. Lucky ended up buying most of them and they disappeared but later in the late 1990’s they came back and opened up a few stores here but then shut them down again and sold them to other supermarkets and moved their operations to Nevada
Was a Californian from my birth (7/25/1968) until 5/22/2004. So...Lucky? Remembered? Yeah! "GETTING BACK TO BASICS/ IS WHAT SHOPPING OUGHT TO BE/ GETTING BACK TO BASICS/ THAT'S BASIC/ THAT'S LUCKY"
Really miss Gelson’s, Ralph’s, Raley’s. Never have missed Lucky. Some of the worst stores. Even their sister brand SaveMart was better. This video is pure fiction.
