Ralphs Testing Undercover 2am Closing Time

By Eric Richardson
Published: Friday, September 14, 2007, at 12:40PM

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DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — Over on the SkyscraperPage Forums LAofAnaheim notes that apparently Ralphs is sneakily testing a 2am closing time, instead of their original midnight cutoff.

Hey all! Ralphs is open until 2 am!!! I was just in there getting dinner, and I've noticed recently that their doors are open past 12 am. I asked recently "are you open past 12?" and the store manager said "yes, we are doing a test run until 2 am...and it's doing well". Kinda odd they do this with no notice. and the signs still say 5 - 12 am But eh, tell your neighbors, friends, etc.. let's get a 24 hour Ralphs soon! They have no timeline on this test run.

Now it seems to be that if you wanted to actually wanted to make a trial run with new hours a success, you'd go and tell people about it. Then again, I'm often baffled by hour choices. In any case, it's nice to see Ralphs open 21 hours per day instead of a mere 19.

Pictured is the ribbon cutting at the Downtown Ralphs grand opening back in July.

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Comments

Benjamin Pezzillo writes:

It would be really great if they tested letting us use our Ralph's Club cards to enter and exit (after purchase) instead of those paper tickets.

A Ralph's FastPass for the dash even?

# on Sep.14.2007 AT 03:14 PM

S writes:

Maybe they can use the extra 2 hours to get rid of the rotten fish they pass off as fresh.

# on Sep.14.2007 AT 03:14 PM

Shawn writes:

Lower their prices! :D

# on Sep.14.2007 AT 04:08 PM

Urban Bruin writes:

Yep, 12:13 am on a Sunday night/Monday morning and I got milk, eggs and O.J. for the week. The clerk told me that as of now 2 a.m. is the latest they are going to stay open but from the number of people in line (+ 12) people I would assume that would change sooner than later.

# on Oct.01.2007 AT 12:32 AM

unhappy Ralph's shopper writes:

I have noticed that Ralph's store almost every week would have an item on sale for an excellent price, and the same item nearby for a regular, or even sale price, much higher than in the other location. Then when you buy the item it is charged at a full price , 2-3 times higher, and they hope you'd accept that. If you do not, they do a "price check" and tell you - "look, this item is on sale for $9.99, not $3.79". The item is exactly the same, volume/brand/quantity/ID number. But, they say, " we are out of " the cheaper one. Or "the quantity is wrong". But now they are so bold that everything is the same but they just don't give you and explanation. I have watched this happen to poor senior citizens that are forced to give their last penny to get the medicine they need, that costs them triple of what they came to the store ready to pay. And now it happened to me several times - and all they say -"We can give you a 1800 number to call" - and which idiot is going to call such a number to waste another hour out of their life. Even homeless value their time and emotional life more that speaking to a computer about "leaving a customer comment" for 30 minutes. THIS IS AN OBVIOUS SCAM, NOT AN INNOCENT MISTAKE, AND WE ALL KNOW THAT. THIS HAPPENED MORE TIMES TO US IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS THAN IN ALL OF OUR LIVES BEFORE. WE SHOULD NOT JUST TAKE IT BUT NEED TO SPEAK UP. I, PERSONALLY, WILL AVOID PLACES LIKE THAT, AND WILL SPEAK FOR THE WEAK AND POOR PEOPLE I SEE COUNTING PENNIES TO PAY UP TO RICH FAT SUPERMARKETS.

# on Nov.24.2008 AT 06:23 PM

Norbie 7 writes:

Make a complaint to the California Attorney General's office. Jerry Brown is very interested in consumer protection. Albertson's supermarkets are places to beware of in regards to marked prices on the shelves as opposed to what is charged at the checkout line. In a couple of instances, I simply left the groceries sitting at the self checkout, walked out and went to shop at another store. They hope that you check out in the manned checkout rather than self or automated checkout because they know that chances are that people are either too intimidated or not paying attention to what prices are being rung up.

# on Nov.24.2008 AT 06:39 PM