Quoting mpt72:
Didn't they build a safeway in chino, like off the 71? I could be wrong... I'm used to delivering to the dc in tracy. That and the two costco dc's here in cali, mira loma and tracy.
I don't think so, although it's been awhile since I've been over there. They used to have Safeways in SoCal and were actually pretty big (as far as qty of stores), but sometime in either the late 80s/early 90's, every one of them closed. At that time, I thought it was the whole chain. They also closed Alpha Beta (bought by Lucky's) and then Lucky's closed, Hughes and another big chain that wasn't around for long (Smith's maybe)...IIRC, this all happened around the time of the last big recession (1991).
I still miss Gemco. That store was awesome; especially for a kid that liked to look at the Atari 400/800 and Texas Instruments computers /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Fedco was similar, but they closed too. Amazing how many brands that are gone now.