These home GM departments were in the Ralphs Marketplace stores. These Marketplace stores were mostly built in suburban/exurban areas around 2001-2006. There is one former Smith's in Glendora that became a Ralphs Marketplace. Very nice stores. Most of these stores have had their Marketplace signage taken down and their home GM section removed, becoming just another regular Ralphs, although one in Porter Ranch (near Northridge) became a Fresh Fare.storewanderer wrote: ↑September 29th, 2020, 12:14 am Ralphs in the early 00's had a very well tailored Home GM selection from Fred Meyer well presented. That was a key feature of their new stores and some of the remodels in NorCal and it really added something to the stores. That was a smaller version of what was used in those AZ Marketplace Stores but it was all Fred Meyer stuff. Somewhere along the way Kroger seemed to lose its way on the Home GM and stopped having stylish items and was just getting the wrong items.
Did Fred Meyer/Kroger ever consider bringing the Fred Meyer name to SoCal, or building Fry's Marketplace-sized Ralphs stores?