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...their heads with burqa-like coverings--the threesome was hard to ignore and at times seemed to flagrantly court attention. On Sept. 27, Mitchell had the first of two brushes with law enforcement when he was picked up for shoplifting batteries, gum, a flashlight and a beer from a supermarket. His name, he told police, was "Go with...
Though much less is known about the six months the trio spent touring San Diego County, there is some evidence that Elizabeth was falling further under Mitchell's sway. While in Salt Lake, Elizabeth had freely roamed the aisles of the Wild Oats supermarket in which Trotta worked, but Mark Arabo, the manager of Wrigley's Market in Lakeside, Calif., observed a much more chastened customer. Over the four months that the three patronized his store, Arabo said, they always stuck to the same pattern. The two women walked meekly behind the man and never grabbed anything from a shelf...
Gigante won't provide specific figures, but Frias says, measured in sales per square foot, Latino grocery stores outperform traditional supermarkets by 25% in L.A. neighborhoods where the two go head to head. Indeed, some of the U.S.-based chains are offering Gigante the sincerest flattery by trying to copy its business model. Last year Albertsons, based in Boise, Idaho, the country's second largest supermarket chain, after Kroger, launched an effort to attract Latinos by revamping three slumping Southern California stores in predominantly Latino areas. The company hung Spanish-English signs over the aisles, expanded produce sections 30%, quadrupled...
...Mart, which is now the biggest retailer in Mexico and one reason Gigante's same-store sales there slipped 5.5% during the first nine months of last year, also plans to join the supermarket battle in California. It will build 40 Supercenters --discount variety stores combined with supermarkets--and aims to use experience gained in Mexico to aggressively target U.S. Latinos. "The chains are coming back and moving in," says Soto. "It's going to be a dogfight...
...Safeway in 1967 and eventually rose to the position of country-operations manager, a job that sent him to the Middle East in 1984 to open and manage Safeway's stores in Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Eight years later, he returned to the U.S. to open his own supermarket franchises in Oregon and Washington State. He was recruited by Gigante in 1994 to run the company's operations on the Mexican Baja California peninsula, which include licensed RadioShack and Office Depot stores. "The name recognition of Gigante was just awesome," Frias says. "But many of the middle-and low-income...