“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. The airport portion was renamed San Bernardino International Airport.Stater Bros. Ross Perot Jr.'s Dallas-based Hillwood Investment Properties is the master developer of the 2,000-acre former base, renamed AllianceCalifornia. Stater Bros.’ move would provide a major boost to the conversion of the former base, which closed in 1994, to an industrial park. He predicted more than $3 billion in sales for the chain in 2004. The unionized chain was not involved in the recent grocery labor action, and was a major beneficiary when shoppers fled its Southland competitors during the dispute, Brown said. is the Inland Empire’s largest private employer, with nearly 13,000 of its 14,500 employees in San Bernardino and Riverside counties. Construction could begin by June, and when finished it would be the single largest distribution center in Southern California, he said. The deal, expected to total about $100 million for the purchase and development of 160 acres of abandoned military buildings, will ultimately put 2.2 million square feet of warehouse space under one roof, Brown said. family at home was something that was on our minds, although we had to make the best business decision for the company.” “I might add that San Bernardino is my hometown, and certainly being able to keep the Stater Bros. “We are in the final stages of negotiations,” said Chairman and Chief Executive Jack H. grocery chain is poised to move its Colton headquarters down the road to the former Norton Air Force base in San Bernardino. Spurning suitors from two neighboring states and Los Angeles and Riverside counties, the Stater Bros.
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