Market Basket (California)

Market Basket was the name used by two separate chains of supermarkets within Southern California.

[2] The chain had 42 locations in 1959 including as far as Santa Ana and San Bernardino.

[4] In 1982, Kroger decided to exit the competitive Southern California supermarket business and broke up the 65 store Market Basket chain by selling many of stores to Ralphs, Boys, Hughes and Vons while closing the rest.

[7] By 1991 the stores were part of Food 4 Less, owned by Yucaipa Co.[8][9] The Market Basket brand was finally retired after Yucaipa acquired Ralphs in 1994 and the various chain were consolidated into the better known Ralphs or Food 4 Less banners.

[10][11] Jerry Lewis plays a stock clerk upon whom a stack of Hi-C cans falls in the Market Basket supermarket at 11315 Ventura Boulevard, Studio City, Los Angeles, in the 1964 film The Disorderly Orderly.