{"id":108036,"date":"2025-12-24T19:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T19:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/108036\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T19:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T19:46:07","slug":"l-a-grocery-stores-are-their-own-case-study-in-economic-disparities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/108036\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. grocery stores are their own case study in economic disparities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Dec. 24, 2025 9:58 AM PT  <\/p>\n<p>To the editor: When I saw the headline \u201cA divergent tale of two Ralphs,\u201d I thought, \u201cOh goody, the Los Angeles Times is giving me a story that really interests me\u201d (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2025-12-22\/tale-of-two-ralphs-k-shaped-economy-looks-like-this-holiday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cA tale of two Ralphs \u2014 Lauren and the supermarket \u2014 shows the reality of a K-shaped economy,\u201d<\/a> Dec. 22). That\u2019s because I thought it was going to be about the fact that, on one block in Beverly Hills, not only is there an amazing Ralphs, Gelson\u2019s and Bristol Farms, but there is also a huge Trader Joe\u2019s nearby, along with a Pavilions that\u2019s a gourmet grocery paradise.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in my South L.A. neighborhood, I have to travel a mile to get to the nearest Ralphs and it is frequently barely stocked and depressing, with many items under lock and key. Now, if you\u2019re going to explore issues around economic disparity and divergence, that would be an interesting and revealing tale of two Ralphs.<\/p>\n<p>Randy Farhi, Los Angeles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec. 24, 2025 9:58 AM PT To the editor: When I saw the headline \u201cA divergent tale of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2029,58164,58163,2072,58168,58167,58166,48,52,51,46353,1838,16101,47,50,49,63,58165,50202,58169,38586],"class_list":["post-108036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-beverly-hills","tag-divergent-tale","tag-economic-disparity","tag-editor","tag-gelson","tag-k-shaped-economy","tag-l-a-grocery-store","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lauren","tag-letter","tag-lock","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-own-case-study","tag-ralphs","tag-randy-farhi","tag-supermarket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}