I had a strong interest in supermarkets when I was a kid. It even played a role in what would become my journalism career, when my best friend in elementary school and I went into the new Ralphs in Encinitas to interview employees and shoppers on cassette tape about the store. That was 1981. That interest sticks with me a bit to this day, so when scanning of the first decades of Encinitas Coast Dispatch archives was complete, I had to satisfy a …
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