A Letter to My Favorite Grocer
From Ben Stein
602 N. Crescent Drive
Beverly Hills, Ca. 90210
8/20/24
To: Mr. Vivek Sankaran
CEO – Albertsons Companies
250 East Parker Blvd.
Boise, Idaho 83706
Dear Mr. Sankaran:
My name is Ben Stein. I am a lawyer, economist, journalist, novelist, actor, screen writer, law teacher, husband, and many other things. I live in Beverly Hills and in Malibu.
I am an avid grocery shopper at your super good supermarkets in West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and Malibu. My wife since 1968 does not like to shop at grocery stores, so I do that with great pleasure.
I especially like to shop at your stores in Beverly Hills and Malibu. These have become my favorite spots in Southern California. They are clean, with friendly, respectful staffs, adequate parking, excellent guard services, and fast, reliable checkout clerks.
Above all, they have super meats and fish. My wife and I especially love your Prime Ribeye steaks, your Skuna Bay salmon fillets, your Dover Sole fillets, your magnificent Idaho baking potatoes (we used to live in Sandpoint, Idaho), and your fabulous sliced roast beef and sliced Boar’s Head honey ham.
These are not cheap, but they are great bargains. I used to shop often at Gelson’s, Whole Foods, and some others. Your foodstuffs are FAR better quality and value than any others that I know of.
Plus, my fellow shoppers are extremely friendly, often greet me by name, and remember small details of my wife’s and my culinary preferences. They also know our health stories well, and ask us friendly but never nosy details of our lives.
I am a small-scale movie star and a well-known writer and TV news commentator. I also had a successful TV game show career that yielded several Emmys.
I am writing simply to say that I believe you offer the single most pleasant shopping experience in LA right now.
I have had a good career, including being valedictorian of my law school class (Yale ’70) and serving as a speechwriter for GOP Presidents Nixon and Ford. Kind people have said that I have a decent sense of good and bad. In that spirit, may I thank you for Pavilions and please keep it going for a long time in this tangled web that we know as “life.”
Best wishes,
Ben Stein
benstein@aol.com
602 N. Crescent Drive
Beverly Hills, Ca. 90210
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