also believes in not just doing business in the community, but being part of the community and we take great pride in giving back to the “valued” communities we are privileged to serve. But what really separates us from the rest, is our people - we work hard ALWAYS to provide you the best shopping experience in town!Stater Bros. Many of our locations have an on-site deli, floral, bakery, and pharmacy departments as well. Our supermarkets offer a great selection of produce, meats, seafood, wine, and grocery items. Markets has provided Southern California residents with the lowest possible prices, the best quality merchandise and friendliest service in town! With 169 convenient supermarket locations to serve Southern California, you're never far from fresh, affordable food. “Yucaipa will always be our hometown,” Brown said.Since 1936, Stater Bros. A Redlands-resident himself, he still thinks of the corporation as a small-town store, focused very much on its roots and dedication to its loyal customers. “All of my customers are my friends.”īrown would surely agree. “I know just a ton of customers,” Carlisle said. He started in the store on Colton Avenue in Redlands, and has spent his entire career in the Redlands, Yucaipa and Calimesa stores.Īnd that’s just the way Carlisle likes it. “I think I’m very fortunate to work in my hometown,” said Carlisle, a Yucaipa resident. Between them, they have 75 years with the company, the same number of years Stater Bros. Carlisle has worked in the grocery stores for 40. from the start.Ĭarlisle followed in the footsteps of his mother, Nancy, who worked for the company for 35 years. The Carlisle family has been with Stater Bros. “I’ve found something I really like to do.” “Every day is a different day,” said Tim Carlisle, manager of the Stater Bros. The other keys to longevity, Brown said, are fair wages, outstanding benefits, and “treating everybody with respect.”īut the employees see another bonus to working for Stater Bros. “We spend more awake hours with each other” than employees do with their individual families, Brown said. Brown credits this to the feeling of “family” promoted by the company. The company is known for having employees stay on for decades. One of the most intriguing aspects of Stater Bros. The company remains the largest privately-owned supermarket chain in Southern California and the largest private employer in both San Bernardino and Riverside counties. The 200-acre site holds the corporate offices, dry and refrigerated distribution centers, the human resources building and the support services building.īy 2009, Staters operated 167 supermarkets, and employed more than 18,000 people. took over a building on what once was part of Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino in 2004. By the end of the year, the company had more than 14,000 employees and 155 stores. Ten of those locations were in San Diego County, the company’s first step into the southern tip of California. In 1999, the company acquired 43 additional locations, including 33 former Albertsons and 10 former Lucky supermarkets. The 100th supermarket was opened in Redlands in 1988, and that year, sales reached $1billion. The first television commercial was launched in 1982, and the company went back and forth as a public and private company. In 1981, Jack Brown joined the company as president and chief executive officer. The 1980s was an important decade for Stater Bros. Two years later, scanning was introduced. Staters entered the computer age in 1977, with the introduction of an automated accounting system. By the end of that decade, 35 locations and more than 2,000 employees were part of the Stater Bros. The 1960s saw the first Orange County Stater Bros. Before that, product was stored in the backroom of the Colton supermarket.īy the end of the 1950s, the company had 23 locations and more than 700 employees. A year later, a 9,000-square-foot office and warehouse facility opened in Colton.
store in Los Angeles County opened in 1950 in Pomona. By 1939, four more stores opened up – in Redlands, Bloomington, Colton and Fontana. market on Yucaipa Boulevard, after Cleo and his brother bought Davis Market for $800, Brown said. In 1936, twins Cleo and Leo Stater opened the first Stater Bros. comes from the first little store in Yucaipa,” said Stater Bros. The store has grown from a single location in Yucaipa to 167 stores with more than 18,000 employees and 2010 sales of $3.6 billion. supermarkets celebrates its diamond jubilee, 75 years in business. may be a household name all over Southern California, but in Yucaipa, it’s still the local grocery store.
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