Albertsons LLC

Lucky to Be Alive

A couple's devastating encounter with Lee Baca's COPS HIT deputies

How Debt Collectors Get Away With Terrorizing Consumers -- With the Blessing of Public Officials

Thanks to a congressional loophole, local prosecutors actually hire private firms to harass citizens

A Brief Guide to L.A. Grocery Stores' Confusing Coupons, Club Cards Contests

Did you ever try to make a shopping list from the grocery store fliers that arrive in most L.A. mailboxes each Tuesday? In theory the promotions are supposed to let us know about all the great deals taking place during the next seven days, starting on Wednesday. But some marketing guru evidently dec ... More >>

Happy World Nutella Day 2012: Or, What to Eat During the Super Bowl Halftime Show

In addition to being the Super Bowl (Patriots vs. Giants, by the way), this Sunday, Feb. 5, is the sixth annual World Nutella Day. OK, this is one of those holidays (Arbor Day, National Cream Puff Day) that may seem arbitrary and slightly ridiculous at first, when in fact it is a serious vindication ... More >>

L.A. Farmers Markets Exposed

Often, produce sold at stalls isn't organic, grown by small farms — or even spray-free

[Updated:] Deal Reached in Grocery Store Labor Feud

L.A. County Federation of Labor​ Update:9/26, 10 a.m. On Sunday night, workers voted and approved a new contract, ending an eight-month dispute with Ralphs, Vons, Pavilions and Albertsons. According to insiders, workers will pay $7 a week for health insurance, or $15 per week for a family. The ... More >>

Trader Joe's Will be Swarmed as Ralphs, Vons, Albertsons Workers Take a Last Step Toward a Strike

vallartasupermarket.com​Updated: It's ova. A settlement has been reached, city Councilman Eric Garcetti tweeted. First posted at 7 a.m. Friday Looks like you're going to be shopping at Trader Joe's, the dollar store, and maybe Vallarta. That's because the workers at Ralphs, Vons and Albertso ... More >>

85°C Bakery-Café Opens in Hacienda Heights

Jim ThurmanLine at grand opening of 85°C Bakery-Café, Hacienda Heights​ The number of international chains with outlets in Los Angeles County grew by one when 85°C Bakery-Café opened in Hacienda Heights on Saturday. The Taiwanese chain, with nearly 500 stores in Taiwan, China and Australia ... More >>

Coupon & Take a Free Ride

Frugal Festival Food!: Free Food, "Extreme Couponing" and Lots of Goods up for Grabs

Photo via Extreme Couponing.This shopper just saved a whole lot of money. You can too.​If you've been obsessed with TLC's new show Extreme Couponing (raises hand), or if you just happen to get a rush from finding deals on the cheap, the Frugal Festival Food! is exactly where you want to be thi ... More >>

Tomato Recall Alert: Grape Tomatoes in California Packaged Salads

Flickr/smcgeegrape tomatoes​ Your food recall alert of the day. (Getting tired of these yet? Right.) A specific lot of grape tomatoes grown by a Florida grower has been recalled by the FDA for possible salmonella contamination, prompting a larger recall of packaged salads. Six L's of Immokale ... More >>

Last Night: Second Glass Wine Riot at Santa Monica Place

​ They came with their propaganda and their party fever. They welcomed everyone, invited the masses into the cavernous space where they assembled at Santa Monica Place mall, jamming to the driving beats of DJ Andie Cassette. And they poured wine. Lots of wine. Wine from all over the world. Sec ... More >>

Your Aerosol Breakfast: Batter Blaster, or Pancakes in a Can

everview.comGetting Past The Reddi Wip Association Is Tough​ We are by nature wary of any nitrous oxide-propelled food product, a pressurized canned food prejudice that we blame squarely on one too many corn syrup and artificial flavor-laden Reddi Wip mustaches as kids. And so when it first h ... More >>

Happy World Nutella Day 2011: Your Lawsuit, Our Excuse to Eat Chocolate

​ If you've been thinking of joining San Diego mother Athena Hohenberg's lawsuit against the makers of Nutella, you might want to wait until Monday to call your lawyer. In a lovely example of irony, it turns out that tomorrow, February 5th, is the 5th annual World Nutella Day. Okay, this is ... More >>

New Mexico Hatch Green Chiles Are Here, But Not For Long

D. GonzalezNew Mexico Hatch Green chiles: Before the drum​ What food trucks are to communal dining, Hatch green chile roasts are to communal cooking. Every August, lovers of New Mexico's fragrant and earthy Hatch green chile come to the events hosted by El Rey Farms, Albertsons and Bristol Fa ... More >>

Check Your Eggs: Millions Recalled Due to Salmonella

Flickr/stevendepolo​An outbreak of salmonella in eggs has prompted a nationwide recall and lead to hospitalizations in counties across the U.S., including in California, the San Jose Mercury News reports. Since May, at least 266 people across the state have become ill after eating contaminated ... More >>

Merlot March Madness: What To Drink On the Road To The Final Four

H&K SculpturesWine Dunk​Welcome to Merlot March Madness. Squid Ink has been training for weeks, swirling and sipping -- definitely not spitting -- to come up with just the right wines to drink during the Road to the Final Four. Why Merlot? It's just so college basketball friendly -- a wine wit ... More >>

Get Ready For World Nutella Day & Our Top 10 List of Nutella Restaurant Dishes

Tomorrow, drumroll please, is World Nutella Day. Okay, this is one of those holidays (Arbor Day, National Cream Puff Day) that may seem arbitrary and slightly ridiculous at first, when in fact it is a serious vindication for some of us. In 2007, two American ex-pat writers living in Italy, Sara Ros ... More >>

Missed Connections at Clubs: The Holiday Desperation Edition

As a service to our readers still looking for a date to all the holiday parties, we've got a bunch of music-related Craigslist 'missed connections' to relay. It's been a busy week not hooking up when you should have, so let's get down to business. guy en Universal Music Group - m4m - 20 (woodland ... More >>

Price Wars: Southern California Supermarkets Slash Prices

In an effort to regain customers who are shopping at discount stores and watching their ever-tightening budgets, supermarket chains are lowering prices, sometimes dramatically. Today Vons dropped the prices on 15% of its products in the chain's 274 stores. Ralph's also announced that it's reducing p ... More >>

Art Nightlife — on Wheels

Living Large: A Sous Chef at Cut Does Coachella, Creates Midnight Feasts, Trusty Crock Pot Involved

Imagine that table filled with eight tired but overjoyed Coachellans This past weekend at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio was pretty memorable: Leonard Cohen at sunset; singer/vegan Morrissey's classic between-song nugget of food criticism directed at the BBQ shack -- "I smell burnin ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Helmet Rule Ignored? A police officers' union is suing the LAPD and its chief, Bill Bratton, accusing both of violating the department's own safety policies. The case is part of the spreading controversy over orders that kept cops from donning riot helmets before a January 10 protest in Westwood. L. ... More >>

Lela Lee

Angry awakening

Separated at Birth

Kevin and Kimberly were twins whose lives were shaped by the desert and loss, but that’s where the similarities ended

Chest of Lies

Identity theft, self-promotion and the search for laminates at Sundance

Farm Girl Goes Hollywood

Laura Kim

Chicanos and the Man

Comedian Paul Rodriguez and his skateboarding son, Paulie, are rich and famous. But where would they be without Pablo?

Surrender at the Supermarket

The national failure of the grocery workers’ union

Shop and Awe, Cart Attack

Pilgrims’ Progress

Blue and clerical collars team up

Supermarket Sweeps

And the strike grinds on

More Than a Food Fight

The deeper meaning of the grocery strike

Now, That’s a Real Strike

Teamsters idle their grocery-laden trucks

The Checkout Line

Sam and His Pals

L.A. is a Wal-Mart town. Get used to it.

The Wal-Mart Equation

It all adds up to a supermarket strike

Unembarrassed

Kristian Hoffman, a dedicated evader of fashion

An Exquisite Scar

Life and commerce along the Alameda Corridor

Less Than Zero

The new age of intolerance

Days for Night

Sundance ’98