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Community Foods Market in West Oakland. Photo: Deonna Anderson Community Foods Market is looking for a community boost. The West Oakland grocery store has seen sales decline by 35% since December 2020. To counteract the decline, the market has launched a Save Our Store (SOS) booster campaign. According to Community Foods Market founder and CEO Brahm Ahmadi, there are both fewer customers shopping, and those who do come in are buying less.  “We’ve seen regular customers go from full shopping carts to hand baskets and now just a few items in their hands,” said Ahmadi in a video released ...

Print Pico-Robertson resident Zev Hurwitz is devoted to his neighborhood Ralphs. He likes the store’s kosher sushi and low prices, and the late-night hours make shopping easy for the busy father. “I usually visit four times a week. Never less than two,” Hurwitz, 27, said via his cellphone as he roamed the store’s aisles last month. Now, the store at Pico Boulevard and Beverwil Drive is closing, the news coming amid a political standoff between the city and grocery chain. This Ralphs opened in 1996. Owner Kroger Co. is shutting down the Ralphs, as well as another store in South L.A. a...