This version of the "Dedication" page is available to accommodate those individuals who don't like lots of interesting animations and distracting flying crap. Regardless to what this site presents in the form of animations and flying crap, the bottom line to this story will always be that Jim Teel, Chuck Collings, and Tom Raley, were nothing more than bumbling con artists who struggled through the 50's and 60's to keep a chain of food stores from going bankrupt. A chain of food stores that none of them were experienced enough to properly run and operate at a profit. Con artists who gained financially from the hard work of an honest man named Charles Nordby, whom they hired in 1973. Mr. Nordby, through a fraudulent enticement to be employed by Raley's, used his unique talents to take a chain of poorly operated stores and turn them around to eventually become one of the best privately owned food stores in America today! For those arrogant asses who shop at Raley's and provide Joyce Raley Teel with addtional ill-gotten profits, I have even offered $100,000 to any fool, who shops at Raley's, to prove Charles Nordby's story wrong. Quit complaining about the flying crap/distractions, and prove Charles Nordby wrong. Information is located on the Raley menu button under $100,000 reward.
Charles Nordby was born August 8, 1924, and passed away May 29, 1996. This web site will mostly be used to tell his story about Raley's Supermarkets located in Sacramento, CA. America is the greatest country in the world, however, it is running rampant with liars, thieves, and frauds. Sadly to say, but these liars, thieves, and frauds lead some of our Churches, some of our Courts, and some of our Unions. Some have become our elected representatives, CEO's of our corporations, and publishers of our news media. Their major objective is to obtain as much money and power that they think is so important to have. Because of this fact, there will also be a number of additional pages that will expose others whom also need to be exposed. Some of the information found on this site will feature immature people, and sadly to say it will come across immature...You will find a lot of animated pictures located on many of the pages within this site. They say a picture is sometimes worth a thousand words, well some of the pictures seen here will give truth to that statement. If you don't understand a certain page on this site, then just look at the pictures there and hopefully it will clarify what message is trying to be conveyed.
Charles Nordby was a man of integrity and a man of his word. In 1973, he turned around the Raley company that was certainly headed towards bankruptcy and made them very profitable and successful. In 1976, he quit Raley's because the three (3) men whom hired him in 1973 reneged on their promises concerning monetary bonuses.
In 1989, Raley's decided it was time to lie to all of their employee's and so they wrote a history book to publicly boast about their success. Raley's willfully and knowingly fabricated a success story in their history book that in actuality covered up the truth about Charles Nordby and his profit increasing program that he implemented at Raley's in 1973. A profit increasing program that turned the struggling Raley company around . Raley's story of their success written within their history book, when looked at realistically, just didn't add up. Just like Raley's many supplier invoices in 1973 didn't add up when Mr. Nordby discovered hundreds of thousands of dollars in dishonest over-charges. Back in 1973, hundreds of thousands of dollars was certainly a lot of money.
It would have been better for privately owned Raley's to have kept their mouth of deceit closed for eternity than it was for privately owned Raley's to willfully open their mouth of deceit in 1989, and boast about the facts of their success when publishing their history book. Raley's gave the impression to their employee's and the public that it required hallucinogenic drugs to be taken, by some of those highly positioned at Raley's, in order for them to have completed their history book. However, it was this "blundering" dishonest act by Raley's, in 1989, to lie to all of their employee's about their success that eventually opened up the doors to the infallible truth about Charles Nordby, to be resurrected, and expose Raley's for their long history of pushing their lies, stupidity, and deceit within the community. And without Charles Nordby and his expertise, Raley's doesn't have a history book being written in 1989, because their history would have ended in 1974.
In 1992, after realizing the story in Raley's history book seemed kind of fishy, Charles Nordby wrote a book too titled "Raley's Exposed, Who On Eartj Saved Raley's?" refuting Raley's deceitful history book. He wanted to publicly state (without boasting) that he alone turned Raley's around in 1973 when Raley's stores were filthy, thieve ridden, and were mismanaged from the president of Raley's on down to store level. His book exposed this company for what they had done to him back during the years of 1973-1976. How could a man who had stopped so much theft going on at all the Raley's stores for three (3) years, end up being cheated so much by the same people who hired him?
All that Mr. Nordby did for Raley's during the years 1973-1976 eventually paved the way for a number of dishonest individuals in the Sacramento community to become who they are today. Regardless of how these individuals may have given the Sacramento community an image that they were honest and respectable, they were still the dishonest people who cheated Mr. Nordby in the 1970's.
Knowing that these dishonest people still had enough deceit dwelling within all of them, they decided to slap Mr. Nordby in the face again inside their company's history book by taking the credit for Mr. Nordby's dedication and for Mr. Nordby hard work during those three (3) critical years that made it possible for Raley's to survive their financial woes of the early 1970's. I guess Mr. Nordby shouldn't have expected anything more from one of these individuals knowing that this person claimed to be a "Christian" and that "his word was his bond!"
Mr. Collings (aka "Christian" & aka "My word is my bond") was even able to top his slapping Mr. Nordby in the face with his deceit by encouraging his religious friends in Sacramento to slap Mr. Nordby in the face too, by calling him a liar and a slanderer, after Mr. Nordby came forward to share his success story. Religious people whom hadn't even met Charles Nordby before-unless they just happened to be one of the nearly 9000 shoplifters Mr. Nordby had apprehended in his (over 45 years) career. And that was nearly 9000 shoplifters without losing one court case and without one false arrest suit.
Mr. Nordby's story in 1992 also embarrassed the local news media and the entire business community after it became known how Raley's became successful. Mr. Nordby also showed the Sacramento Bee newspaper that they had "no" good ethics at all, and that the Bee's number one reason for publishing a newspaper was just for "making a buck." Unless it was Charles Nordby's buck that was going to be spent to expose the big lie going on in Northern California! The entire Sacramento community for many years had believed this lie. What lie? The Tom Raley lie. Why would anybody want to believe in this lie? Because today it represents a lot of money to those who do not want to believe in the truth and close their eyes to it.
Mr. Nordby's truth about Raley's has been promoted for nearly sixteen (16) years and not once has the Sacramento Bee newspaper informed their readers of this truth. The Sacramento Bee newspaper can't accept the fact that their wonderful friends at Raley's built their entire success by defrauding an honest man with nine (9) children. Also, the Sacramento Bee can't accept the fact their wonderful religious friend Charles Collings is just a fraud.
The Sacramento Bee newspaper also denied Mr. Nordby his ability to place a simple ad in their newspaper promoting his success story concerning Raley's. This is the same local newspaper that wanted to promote Raley's fraudulent version of their success in 1991. The Bee newspaper merely shrugged off Mr. Nordby by claiming Mr. Nordby's ad was "inappropriate" for their newspaper. But in reality, the Sacramento Bee couldn't afford to have Mr. Nordby use their newspaper ink (at any cost he was willing to pay) to tell his story that would reveal that the owners of the Sacramento Bee newspaper were clearly the "cowards" that they really are when it comes to telling the truth about their personal friends. How sad to realize that the ink used by any newspaper is owned by their advertisers.
It was easier for the Bee to continue to protect Raley's in their lies than it was for the Bee to boldly pursue the truth concerning a most fascinating story, about how one honest man, showed where an entire organization filled with dishonesty was bankrupting a local supermarket chain. It was only this man, with his unusual talents in the grocery business, who was able to bring all of this dishonesty to a halt and bring professionalism back to an entire business operation. A business operation that, before Mr. Nordby was hired, was mismanaged and should have gone bankrupt!
The Sacramento Bee newspaper can claim blindness as a defense to Mr. Nordby's story because they can't see past Raley's advertising dollars. However, the "Bee" can-not claim ignorance to Mr. Nordby's story because the "Bee" has been aware of the facts since March of 1991. That was the month and the year the "Bee" was informed of their errors concerning what they had published about Raley's success in their newspaper. And since then, the Bee has been hiding behind the advertising dollars that Raley's obtained over the many years of being fraudulent beneficiaries of Mr. Nordby's profit increasing program. The "Bee" sadly lowered themselves even further when they assisted Raley's in making sure that the public never hears this story. Today is the day that this web site informs Raley's and the Sacramento Bee newspaper that you can't silence the truth @
www.raleysexposed.com
There is more information about the Sacramento Bee newspaper located in the "News Media" page.
At the moment, there are three (3) audios to hear on this site. An audio of Charles Nordby telling his story about Raley's (recorded back in early 1996), can be heard by clicking "Raley's" at the top of the menu. An audio of Dateline NBC (recorded late 1996) indicating that they wanted to tell this story, can be heard by clicking on "Dateline NBC"- a sub page of the News Media page at the top of the menu. An audio of a preacher named Glen Cole (recorded October of 1998) telling his story about a purse snatcher he chased down a dark street in Washington, can be heard by clicking on "The Church" at the top of the menu.
In addition to the audios, there are a number of PDF files with sound that can be accessed. These PDF files were created using adobe acrobat 6.0 Professional-so you may need to download a more current acrobat reader. A PDF file is a method for distributing formatted documents over the Internet. You need a special reader program called Acrobat and most current computer operating systems have it, but if your computer doesn't have the program and can't open a "PDF" file then you can get the Acrobat Reader at www.adobe.com.
A PDF file can be found on the "Who is Charles Nordby?" page with a 1992 audio of Raley's spokeswoman Beverly Hardesty basically saying that Mr. Nordby is just a "disgruntle" ex-Raley employee who lied in the book that he wrote about Raley's and that his book wasn't worth buying. Just click on the photo of Charles Nordby's book cover and listen to Beverly publicly state that Charles Nordby only worked for Raley's for one (1) year in 1974 and that she had been totally misquoted in his Raley book. This PDF file will show you her quote from Raley's history book and also show you exactly how Charles Nordby quoted her in his book-is this woman on drugs? You will also get the impression that Beverly has been coached by Mr. Collings concerning what to say about an order form for Mr. Nordby's book that was being locally distributed in Sacramento.
A PDF file can be found on the "Raley's Sales Increases" page (a sub page of Raley's), that shows Raley's incredible sales increases for the years 1978 to 1984.
A PDF file can also be found on the "UFCW 588" page (a sub page of Raley's), that shows UFCW 588's LM-2 statements filed with the U.S. Dept. of Labor. This report reveals how much money the Union President paid himself, his family, and his friends who operate this union. Raley's and this Union have had a very cozy relationship over the years. Another UFCW PDF file is also featured on this page that will give proof of UFCW corruption when it comes to their member representation in grievance arbitrations. UFCW 588 has recently merged with other local UFCW unions and has been changed to UFCW 8.
A PDF file can also be accessed from the "1973 YEARS OF HARD WORK" page (a sub page of Raley's page). This PDF file highlights Raley's Superstories magazine giving thanks to Raley's employees for their years of service . Raley's used a photo of Frank McMinn for this article. Raley's didn't know at the time of their magazine article that Charles Nordby also had a copy of this same photo.
There are many other PDF files that can be found on this web site too.
There are also a few music files attached to some of the other pages. Just to name a few, the song "Take me out to the ball park" is attached to the Raley Field page- a sub page of the Raley's page. The theme music to the "Mission Impossible" movie is attached to the Media Links page-a sub page of News Media page. The "Batman" song is attached to the Sacramento Union Newspaper page-a sub page of the News Media page. The song "Dust in the Wind" is attached to the Joyce Raley Teel page (a sub page of the Raley's page).
If you have dial up connection, there may be a delay because downloading sound is a large file and takes longer to download. DSL-Broadband users should be able to access everything sooner.
Contact Raley's at raleys.com. E-mail them. Ask them this question: Did you build your entire success by defrauding an honest man with nine (9) children? They haven't been honest for decades, so don't expect an honest answer from them today! Contact the Sacramento Bee newspaper at sacbee.com and ask them "what the hell is going on at the Bee, can't you print the truth about the crimes committed by your personal friends?" Wait-stop the presses! Don't bother Raley's or the Sacramento Bee newspaper with these questions, this web site will provide you with the answers!
Anyway, I hope you enjoy this web site. Regardless of any absurdity that may be seen on any particular page linked to this web site, there is one predominant message that clearly pervades, and that is: When you have the truth, you can do anything you want with it. Especially while running the 7 & 1/2 miles San Francisco Bay to Breakers race, through all of the crowded streets that are over-flowing with a wave of people wearing their running shoes, who swiftly carries you from San Francisco's tallest buildings to San Francisco's steepest hills, and all the way to the sandy coast of the Pacific Ocean, where you can stop and catch your breath and realize for the very first time what it really means to be "bold" in this life. Wow, I need to catch my breath after that long sentence...
