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RALEY'S HISTORY BOOK

Instead of Joyce, Jim, and Chuck writing a history book and taking everybody on a phony ride, they should have just gone down to Southern California and experienced a much better, put together fantasy. In fact, it would have been more fitting for Raley's to have offered their history book free to Disneyland patrons than to have offered it free as a Christmas gift to Raley's employees.

A book of lies and written by liars...

I wonder how many other historical facts a person learns over the course of their lives where the facts weren't facts at all? It wouldn't be surprising at all to find out that most "history books" read in American public schools are more fiction than fact!!! Imagine picking up a "history book" only to realize that the authors of the book fabricated their story...

Below represents the "To The Reader" page from Charles Nordby's book titled
"Raley's Exposed, Who on Earth Saved Raley's?"

These three (3) guys ended up becoming the 'Holy Trinity.' Imagine that!

1. Glaser Blos. Restitution plus new deal has paid my salary since.

Overcharging in Reno and California.

2. Tony Ingoglia Co. was overcharging Raley's ten-of-thousands of dollars yearly.

3. Maid-Rite overcharging and not giving same prices to all stores.

4. Montco Cheese overcharging and not giving same prices to all stores.

5. Nulaid eggs-Reno, Nevada overcharging

6. Merideth Fish Co.- Short weight plus overcharging, not giving same prices to all stores.

7. Reynolds Tobacco Co. - Salesman stealing from Raley's Market-Restitution

8. Sierra News- Saleman removing hundreds of dollars worth of books from store #27 without giving credit.

9. United Grocers Drugs-Salesman not delivering several hundred dollars worth of Christmas merchandise without manager's knowledge.

10. Kraft Co.- Salesman reducing prices without authorization and destroying merchandise without giving credit. Store #19, plus Reno stores.

11. Model Dairy Co.- Not giving 1% discount plus not being competitive.

12. Produce Suppliers-Overcharging Raley's on a daily basis. Results are better gross margins and less loss at warehouse.

13. Bread Salesmen-under pricing merchandise in many Raley stores.

14. Potato Chips- Salesmen under pricing merchandise in Cal. and Nevada Raley's stores.

15. Candy Salesmen- under pricing merchandise at stores plus overcharging on invoices.

16. Beverage salesmen- under pricing merchandise at Raley's stores.

17. Washington Inventory Service wasn't giving Raley's an accurate count

18. Price changes were not being made in many Raley's stores.

19. Employees were not paying for their purchases in many instances.

20. Rules and procedures were installed to prevent driver/salesmen from cheating

21. A proven security program was initiated which has reduced shoplifting and employee theft. Several thousand apprehensions and arrests for shoplifting.

22. Dozens of employees have been terminated for theft. A few, which were costing Raley's, and would have continued to cost Raley's, large amounts of money, are as follows:

This opinion was published in the Sacramento Bee. If you think of how stupid the people are who engage in 'hazing', wait until you get ahold of how 'stupid' the people are who put this 'Raley' history book together. I think Joyce, Chuck, and Jim would have been better at 'doing hazing' than 'doing history.'

Below represent some of the pages found in Raley's history book.

The first paragraph from this page is quoting Mr. Collings. 'Tell our story, but don't build an altar.' Raley's story was told and it is a story of lies.

Instead of Tom Raley abusing his second wife Joan, maybe he should have gone down to one of his many mismanaged stores to relax.

Tom Raley spent 5 years learning the grocery business and may have spent many more years learning to be con. In fact, in 1973, Tom Raley had a conman running his chain of stores. Based on Charles Nordby's expertise on Raley's during the 1970's, Tom Raley didn't learn very much about the grocery business.

Tom Raley advertised 'The nation's first drive-in market.' This was the beginning of the 'Tom Raley Lie.' If Safeway taught Mr. Raley everything that Mr. Raley knew, it is obvious that he didn't learn much from the Safeway company.

Raley's History book stated that Tom Raley earned $4500 his first year in Placerville. Is that a true statement?

The page above indicates that Tom Raley earned a whopping $4,500 profit in his first year in business. After a quick audit, the page below (down at the bottom of the article) indicates that Tom Raley earned a meager $500 profit for the first year back in 1935.

The 1943 fire that destroyed Tom Raley's first store in Placerville. Not 1942!

What the hell is going on here? Raley's 1989 July/August Superstories Magazine states down at the bottom of the page that Mr. Raley's first year's profits were $500. Plus, how many times do I have to repeat myself? The original Raley store in Placerville burned down in May of 1943.

Above, the article states that Tom Raley opened his first store in February of 1935. This article states that his first store opened in January of 1935. Oh well, nobody knows what's going on in this company.

Here it is folks. There is no longer any need for anybody to state incorrectly the year in which Tom Raley's first store in Placerville burned down. Can you see 'May 25, 1943 in the upper right hand corner?

In the May 25, 1943 Sacramento Bee article below, Tom Raley stated to the reporter doing this story that he planned to reopen in temporary quarters as soon as possible. Was Tom Raley just making that statement so that the community would think that he was planning on staying in Placerville? Read the article and realize the suspicious nature of this fire. Mr. Raley didn't stay in Placerville at all. Instead, he opened up another market in Sacramento. Did he have insurance on his store in Placerville? You would think that a grocer being considered a genius making huge profits in Placerville would want to continue serving his customers there and continue pulling in the big profits in Placerville. Nope, not Tom Raley. This may have been the only time in Tom Raley's great grocery career that he decided to leave a profitable store. I guess he also started to set a new trend in the grocery business. Buy losing grocery chains like Eagle Thrifty of Nevada and dessert profitable stores like his first store in Placerville. Maybe this is why Tom Raley became such a genius in this business.

Raley said he plans to open in temporary quarters as soon as possible.

In 1944, Tom Raley opened this new store in Sacramento. Mr. Raley decided he didn't want to sell groceries in Placerville any longer. It became too profitable for Mr. Raley to stay in Placerville.

Tom Raley didn't open up in temporary quarters in Placerville, instead, he opened this store in Sacramento in 1944.

Maybe if Raley's writes another history book, they can claim the year '1943' as the correct year when Tom Raley's first store in Placerville burned down. A very suspicious fire. If Tom Raley earned so much money from his first store in Placerville in the first year, why did he leave Placerville and didn't return for over twenty years after the fire?

Tom Raley continued to open stores and closed stores that didn't prosper. Yet, in 1973, Tom Raley, after selling his losing Miracle Marts, and his losing Hotels, goes out and buys the Eagle Thrifty stores of Nevada. A chain of stores that were losing money. Charles Nordby also promised Raley's that he would increase Raley's profits. In fact, Raley's profits shot through the sky from Mr. Nordby's promise. And those profits didn't just come from the produce department, it came from every department in Raley's operation.

Conman Raley and his green thumb bananas. Papas shouldn't have been concerned about paying 5 cents for honeydew melons. In 1973, Raley's were paying $313.92 for single case of hams with only 6-8lb hams in a case. It should have only cost Raley's $52.32 for the case of hams.

In the above page, Papas bought honeydew melons for five cents a piece. See the example below of the bargain deals that many suppliers received from Raley's through issuing fraudulent invoices at Raley's before Mr. Nordby was hired. And the top executives at Raley's were willing to pay these exorbitant overcharges.

Can you imagine Tom Raley, Chuck Collings, Jim Teel, and Frank McMinn in 1973,before Charles Nordby arrived on the scene, allowing this kind of overcharging to happen on a daily basis at Raley's.

None of the guys in the restaurant is still in business. Yeah right. Tom Raley should have left the business in 1974.

You could talk to Tom Raley about any phase of the business and Tom Raley would know all about it. That's unless you talk to Tom Raley about what was going on at all of the Raley's stores in 1973.

In 1973, the only ones who were profiting from Raley's were the dishonest suppliers, dishonest employee's, and the dishonest clientel.

When Raley's picked store managers, they picked the hardest workers, it didn't matter if you had any brains. In fact, when Tom Raley picked Presidents and Vice Presidents, it also didn't matter if they had any brains.

So Claire Raley wanted to nonchalantly state that she and Tom kind of drifted apart and divorced in 1968.

I guess it would be fair to say that Claire reaped handsomely from Charles Nordby's expertise to be able to claim her statement in Raley's history book.

Left to right: Frank McMinn; Chuck Collings; Jim Teel. The good news is that Frank McMinn doesn't have a 'golf ball' stuck in his mouth. When Chuck Collings isn't standing in the middle of his Church, he likes to sit in between the other two 'boys.'

In 1973, Chuck Collings was the stupidest man Mr. Nordby ever met in charge of a chain of grocery stores. Raley's history book stated Mr. Collings supervised a staff of 80 clerical workers at Montgomery Wards accounting department in 1956. I wonder if this is really true?

Not only was Mr. Collings just an idiot, he was also a fraud of a Christian. Mr. Collings claims water finds its own level, and so do frauds.

Collings states 'he let me get to where I can almost read his mind.' Did Mr. Raley also allow Mr. Collings go to where he could sign Mr. Raley's signature?

Wow, alarm bells were going off in Mr. Collings head. Those alarm bells in Mr. Collings head weren't working in 1973 when almost every major Raley supplier were stealing large sums of money from Tom Raley on their invoices. Collings should have been convicted of fraud too!

Above, Chuck Collings indicated that alarm bells went off in his head. Click on the media player below and hear what Chuck Collings may have heard when those alarm bells went off inside his head.

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Those alarm bells that were going off in Chuck Collings head were no longer working properly

when Charles Nordby arrived on the scene.

Tony's was overcharging on ad items at certain Raley's stores-

Tony's was overcharging on random weight cheese at Raley's stores-

Tony's was overcharging on mozzarella cheese at Raley's stores-

Tony's was overcharging on ricotta cheese at Raley's stores-

Tony's was overcharging on 1 lb. longhorn cheese at Raley's stores-

Tony's was overcharging on La Fiesta Tortillas at Raley's stores-

Tony's was overcharging Tillamook cheese-all sizes- at Raley's stores-

Tony's was overcharging on Danish sliced ham at Raley's stores-

Tony's was overcharging on ball park franks at Raley's stores-

Tony's was overcharging on McCoy's corned beef at Raley's stores-

Tony's was overcharging on potato salad at Raley's stores-

Tony's was overcharging on Tony's dips at Raley's stores-

Tony's was overcharging on pork links at Raley's stores-

Tony's was overcharging on many imported speciality cheese items at Raley's stores-

Tony's had numerous errors in extending on invoices at Raley's stores-

Tony's was charging for merchandise on invoices not delivered to Raley's stores-

Tony's was not giving spoil discount on certain invoices at Raley's stores-

Tony's didn't give manufactures allowances on items such as Precious Mozzarella cheese on invoices at Raley's stores while United Grocers had .45 to .60 off on all sizes for two months-

Tony's didn't allow enough tare on random weight cheese. Raley's was allowing 5 to 6 ounces per case more to the customer than your company allow us. This was costing Raley's approximately $200 weekly-

Tony's wasn't charging all of Raley's stores the same price on the same day on their invoices-

Tony's was charging Raley's one (1) dozen items per case when Tony's only had 6 items in the case-

Tony's was presenting invoices that weren't always legible at Raley's stores-

Tony's did not allow 3% discount for warehouse delivery-

Charles Nordby figured that Tony's invoicing irregularities probably cost Raley's stores 2% per year. Charles Nordby spent many hours researching these invoices and said it was obvious that 99% of all mistakes on Tony Ingoglia invoices were in Tony Ingoglia's favor

Jim Teel had just been promoted to Executive Vice President in 1966-68 by Tom Raley, Chuck Collings is still the bookkeeper during this period, why didn't Tom Raley promote his son in law Jim Teel to the Presidents position in 1969?

It seems to me, by this article, that Tom Raley was grooming his son in law Jim Teel to be the next President. I mean, by the face value of this article, Jim Teel can do it all. However, something terribly wrong happened to Jim Teel between 1966 and 1973. When Charles Nordby was hired in 1973, Jim Teel turned into an inexperienced blithering idiot. And where did Mr. Palmer go? He was probably smart enough in 1967 to realized this Raley ship was sinking and he jumped overboard...like so many others did.

Meijer's (located in Michigan) has successfully operated these large format stores for years, even in the early 60's. Raley's couldn't successfully operate the Miracle Marts because Tom Raley, Jim Teel, and Chuck 'conman' Collings were cons and not smart grocery people.

How pitiful. Raley's can't make the Miracle Marts successful, so they sue a guy for $350,000 who is using the words 'Miracle Mart' to sell his furniture...

Boy, after reading this page, you come to realize just how stupid everybody in the Raley organization were in the 1960's.

So Raley's decided to hire experts in 1966 to clean up their Miracle Mart mess but to no avail. Nowhere in Raley's history book does Raley's mention the expert they hired in 1973.

These are the same stupid people that thought they could turn around a losing chain of stores called 'Eagle Thrifty.' Eagle Thrifty was going to be just an ATM machine for Jim Jackass Teel, and Chuck Jackass Collings!

There are still Raley employees around today who remember wondering 'what turned the company around in 1973 when they didn't know whether or not their payroll check would clear the bank!' Weren't some of the company's Raley's is giving thanks to, some of the same company's Charles Nordby caught overcharging Raley's in the 1970's?

Raley's should haved folded. They only continued as a business because they hired Charles Nordby to troubleshoot their troubled company. The best was yet to be in a person named 'Charles Nordby!'

Charles Nordby suggested to the idiots running Raley's to take down their stupid wall because it was making it difficult for his security program to have its greatest results. Notice that the walls came down when Charles Nordby was hired. When Charles Nordby was hired in 1973, Chuck Collings and Jim Teel's biggest concern was to get as much money out of the Eagle Thrifty company before they bankrupted this chain of mismanaged stores. These clowns didn't care about Raley's walls dividing their markets from their drug outlets. Had Raley's not hired Charles Nordby when they did, Raley's would have gone out of business with those walls still separating the two stores.

Wow, after reading this page, you get the feeling like these guys really have something on the ball.

The increased sales took place because the idiots running Raley's finally took Mr. Nordby suggestion of lowering their prices. Wow, look how Raley's History book makes Frank McMinn look like some organized and efficient Raley executive. Frank McMinn had no clue on the grocery business when Charles Nordby was hired. Charles Nordby is the guy who came in and clear away the mountains of stupidity running this chain of stores. Frank McMinn was as stupid as the rest of them. He did well in advertising but that is as far as it went with his 'smarts.'

Meet Jim Teel-why didn't Tom Raley promote Jim to the President's position ahead of Chuck Collings?

Be sure to click on the page below to find out the

name of the one impressed employee who dubbed

Chuck Collings, Jim Teel, and Frank McMinn

"The Holy Trinity."

It really is a small world.

Click on this picture and open up a PDF file to find out the name of the one impressed employee who dubbed them 'The Holy Trinity.' This name will surprise you.

Only a _ _ holes like this idiot can make the statement 'I have no regrets.'

Is Mr. McMinn trying to measure his mouth so he can learn to hide a golf ball inside his mouth? They were hired as executives. In 1973, they could have been considered 'dumb executives.'

This is Frank McMinn back in 1974. Is he hiding a golf ball inside his mouth?

You can't see my feet, but I am able to stand on only one foot right now. Chuck Collings indicated Mr. Nordby was just a boozer. Well, what kind words did Mr. Collings say about Joyce and Frank?

How sad to think that Frank McMinn would have allowed himself to become part of this joke of a history book!

In 1973, Raley's produce was just a high priced, poorly operated store department. In fact, Charles Nordby was able to show Raley's how they were being cheated out of large sums of money by being quoted a price on their produce over the telephone and then being overcharged for the same price agreement on their invoices by their produce suppliers. I wonder why Mr. genius McMinn wasn't smart enough to catch that problem?

In 1973, Tom Raley found it more relaxing to abandon his stores and abuse his 2nd wife Joan in 1974, and during this time period the only people on board at Raley's were a bunch of incompetent grocery goofballs who should have lost their jobs.

According to Charles Nordby, Keith Tronson is one of the few qualified people to be employed at Raley's during the time Charles Nordby was employed by Raley's.

This page said money was tight when Keith Tronson was hired in 1974, but things quickly got better. Cash was so tight in 1973, that Raley's couldn't afford Mr. Nordby's security windows that were installed in all of the Raley's stores. How did things get better quickly? They didn't purchase Eagle Thrifty with cash. Eagle Thrifty was losing money. Now think about it, Charles Nordby was hired in 1973 with a program that he said would increase their profits. It is strange that Raley's failed to recognize hiring Charles Nordby in their History book during this time period. A man who more or less promised Raley's that things would quickly get better if they implemented his profit increasing program and they did!

Read the next three pages concerning Raley's stamps. Tom Raley indicated in a 1972 newspaper article that trading stamps was one of the 'points of difference' that his company offered his customers. In 1972, Tom Raley indicated stamps added to the cost of his groceries but that his customers wanted stamps so he continued to provide them to his customers. Yet, shortly after Charles Nordby was hired in 1973, Raley's discontinued these trading stamps. The stamps that Tom Raley said his customers wanted...

Here comes Charles Collings to the rescue.

Wow, good ole Chuck Collings coming to the rescue. I wonder why Raley's didn't include the year that they discontinued giving out stamps to their customers in their story about 'stamps?'

Charles Nordby only saw Mr. Raley one time in this run down office building while Mr. Nordby was employed by Raley's for three years.

Beverly Hardesty. Oh yeah, she is the Raley's spokeswoman who claimed that Charles Nordby was a liar and misquoted her in his book about Raley's. Is this woman on drugs?

To hear Beverly Hardesty call Mr. Nordby a liar and a man who misquoted her in his book about Raley's, click on the media player to the right. Is this woman on drugs?

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Over to the left is the story "The Emperor's New Clothes."

I think the Tom Raley story is very similar to this story. Let's see, Tom Raley is the Emperor (yeah right.) Jim Teel and Chuck Collings are the two scoundrels. They, along with Joyce Raley Teel, Frank McMinn and the rest of the idiots and incompetents in Sacramento thought that they could pull the wool over the eyes of everybody. Raley's history book serves as the "new clothes" for Mr. Tom Raley. Nobody in Sacramento wants to admit their stupidity and their incompentence concerning the true story about Raley's. Read the story to the left, then try and find all of the similarities in this story.

Imagine that, somebody at Raley's being honest. Ray Levesque may have done the only 'honest' thing ever at Raley's,

Marv Dart has a fond memory of 1961. Let's see, 1961 was the year that Tom Raley went through his first divorce. The meat man who predicted Tom Raley would be the top grocer in Northern California-is he the Raley employee who introduced psychodelics to the Raley team back then. Without Charles Nordby, Tom Raley would have ended up just like Von's, Farmer's Market, White Front, etc...

Wow, read Jim Teel's memory. Jim was sharp enough to find the lost chicken truck driver who had fallen asleep. I am sure that lost truck driver would have just as embarrassing stories back then about the clowns he was delivering chickens to. Hey, get comfy in your chairs, the best memories are to follow. Chucky pooh had a couple of great memories pertaining to the greatest grocer who ever handled a can of Raley's overpriced peas..

Poor old Tom Raley- Chuck, Joyce, and Jim write a history book about him, only to embarrass him with this nonsense. Wouldn't it be really humerous to find out that Tom Raley was that lost truck driver who couldn't find his way to Sacramento, described by Jim Tell above, with the smelley chickens in the back of the truck?

Wow, Chuck Collings said it all. In only a few paragraphs, Mr. Collings humerously made the great Tom Raley into the biggest fool ever to work in the grocery business. And then Tom Raley's only daughter Joyce, wanted to remind everybody on how rude Tom Raley was when his customers weren't satisfied with Raley's meat. In 1973, I am sure there were plenty of customer complaints on how 'brown' the meat was.

Wow, Tom Raley was just an awesome grocery genius..In fact, at the age 84, he was remarried. Maybe his new wife Dotti figured Mr. Raley was too old to abuse her like he did Joan...

Why didn't Raley's history book mention Tom Raley's second wife Joan?

This is what the page below should have stated:

So Tom Raley hung in there and in 1973, at age 70, when many men his age have safely retired to the golf course, he took another of those magnificent risks and married Joan Bulechek, which helped make him a woman abuser in the annals of corporate high rollers.

So Tom Raley in 1973 bought the Eagle Thrifty Drug Company of Nevada. Yet, Mr. Tom Raley never knew Charles Nordby who was hired about the same time as a consultant in 1973. Hiring Mr. Nordby in 1973 is what turned the company around, changed the image of Raley's and made Tom Raley a millionaire several times over.

Is Tom Raley standing in the doorway to his Placerville store? Maybe Tom Raley left Placerville in 1943 because he didn't have customers coming into his store. And the 1943 Placerville fire just happened to come at the right time so he could leave Placerville and open up another store in Sacramento.

Where is the 'Eagle Thrifty' logo in the two pictures below?

Below is Raley's 1989 "Executive Committee." Seated, from left: Michael Teel, Administrative Assistant; Jim Williamson (the man who said that "when Raley's picked store managers, they picked the hardest workers. It didn't matter if you had any brains; there was hardly any paper work"-page 41 of Raley's history book) Director of Merchandising, Grocery Division; Keith Tronson, Chief Financial Officer (Charles Nordby claimed Keith was one of the few qualified people on Raley's payroll in the 1970's); Garry Ray, Director of Operations, Grocery Division; Standing, from left: Gary Skelly, Director of Merchandising, Drug and General Merchandise Division; Jo Sisneros (here is a person Charles Nordby would have fired on the spot), Director of Perishables, Operations and Merchandising; and Bob Teel, Director of Operations, Drug Division.