A blood drive and fundraising effort are underway in Southern California to support two employees injured in an explosion at a Sport Chalet store.

Stater Bros. has promoted Dan Meyer to the position of EVP retail operations.

Check out Walgreens' newest flagship store in Southern California.

A small group of Walmart employees at a Southern California store staged a one day walk out some have been quick to label as a strike. The New York Times details what happened and Walmart’s response. Click here.　

99 Cents Only has leased 40 new compressed natural gas-powered tractors from Ryder.

Mattel has renamed its design center at its Southern California headquarters the Handler Team Center in honor of founders Ruth and Elliot Handler.

Stater Bros. making strides on the sustainability front, with six of its newest supermarkets earning the EPA GreenChill Gold Award for meeting tough environmental standards and using ozone friendly refrigerants.

Walmart was never made to feel welcome in its Southern California expansion efforts, so it was interesting this week to see researchers at the University of Southern California release a study that could come in handy next time Walmart seeks approval for a new store.

Sue Klug, president of the Southern California division of Supervalu, has been awarded the Bobbie O'Hare Award for outstanding service to the Network of Executive Women.

Supervalu announced that it is not removing the self check-out lanes from the 460 Albertsons stores that it owns and operates in Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Nevada, Southern California, Utah, Washington state and Wyoming.

Third-quarter sales growth was hard to come by at 99 Cents Only as the extreme value retailer’s heavy concentration of stores in Southern California were negatively affected by unseasonably strong rains that hit the region prior to Christmas.