CONTACT
DEDICATION   WELCOME
WHO BURNED CAESARS?
$100,000  REWARD
YOUTUBE
FRANK'S  BLOG
FRANK NORDBY'S RUNNING
WHO WAS CHARLES NORDBY?
CELEBRATE DEATH
JOYCE RALEY TEEL
CHARLES COLLINGS
RALEY'S HISTORY BOOK
EAGLE THRIFTY STORES
EAGLE THRIFTY CORPORATION
Eagle Thrifty $10
MICHAEL TEEL
JIM TEEL
CLAIRE RALEY
BEVERLY HARDESTY
MR. NORDBY'S RESIGNATION LETTER
FRAUD SUIT
DISHONEST DELI SUPPLIER
RALEY FIELD
1973 YEARS OF HARD WORK
RALEY'S SALES INCREASES
RALEY'S COURT CASES
UFCW 588
UFCW8
SACRAMENTO CHALK IT UP
VIEWERS RESPONSES
RALEY'S STORE
RALEY'S Faq
TOM RALEY
RALEY'S
DATELINE NBC
SACRAMENTO BEE
DIANA GRIEGO ERWIN
TOM RALEY, 1972 BEE ARTICLE
JOSEPH FARAH
KCRA 3 NEWS
KCRA 3-ADD A BUCK
THE BEE-GINNING
MELANIE SILL
CHERYL DELL
CHERYL DELL FLYER
MARJIE LUNDSTROM
GARY PRUITT
BOB SHALLIT
DOME PRINTING
SACRAMENTO MAGAZINE MICHAEL O'BRIEN
NEWS MEDIA
GLEN COLE
$300 TO PROVE MR. COLE'S STORY
THE DAILY OLYMPIAN AND THE TRUTH
GLEN COLE RESPONDS
TED SMITH
RAY JOHNSTON'S CHURCH LETTER
RAY JOHNSTON BAYSIDE CHURCH
CHURCH KINGS
CHURCH LINKS
DECEIVER AND A LIAR
THE CHURCH
ALBERTSONS 109
BAY TO BREAKERS
LUCKY STORES
SUSAN HAYDEN SHERLOCK
Terry Sandbek
ALBERTSONS
MY ANIMATIONS
 
Tom Raley - 1972 Bee article 
This page represents an article that the Sacramento Bee published in October of 1972.  It featured Tom Raley and told his story about his shoestring beginnings how he was able to open his first grocery store in Placerville.   I have to wonder how much fraud was going on at Raley's when this Bee article came out.    
Tom Raley was interviewed by the Sacramento Bee in 1972.  This paragraph states that Mr. Raley owns the whole ball of wax.  And that's probably all that Mr. Raley really owned back in 1973-a ball of wax.  It may have been even ear wax...
In the above paragraph, in October of 1972,  Tom Raley is sitting in Raley's office building 1515 20th street in Sacramento.  Not less than a year later, you couldn't find Raley at this same office building when Charles Nordby was hired. I think in 1973, Raley was courting his second wife Joan, a woman who apparently was a real estate broker.   
Tom Raley received credit and was able to get it when he listed the chairman of the board of Safeway.
Mr. Raley states in this article that he had one thing going for him and that was he knew how to run a grocery store.  Mr. Raley didn't have a clue on how to run a grocery store.  I wonder how much credit Mr. Raley was receiving in order to open his stores before the Eagle Thrifty Stores were obtained in June of 1973?

Read the paragraph below and see how Raley describes his point of difference.  The biggest point of difference that existed at his Raley's stores was the ability his suppliers, employee's, and his clientele (shoplifters) were easily able to rip him and his stores off.  In truth, Raley's biggest point of difference came less than a year after this article was written when a grocery consultant by the name of Charles Nordby was hired. 

A man whom Tom Raley claimed he never knew.

If Mr. Raley is so bought on the idea of giving  trading stamps to his customers in October of 1972, why did Raley's discontinue the trading stamps in the first part of the new year in 1974?
Mr. Raley acknowledges that trading stamps add slightly to cost of groceries, but Mr. Raley thinks that housewives like them, and so he gives them stamps.  If the housewives like trading stamps, why did Raley's discontinue these stamps about fifteen months after this interview?  Mr. Raley was really impressed with his corn fed beef.  This is the same beef Charles Nordby witnessed browning in Mr. Raley's stores in 1973.
Read the paragraphs below and see where Tom Raley indicates that he is proud of the organization that he has built up over the years and stating that the stores almost run by themselves.  When Charles Nordby was hired less than ten months after this article was written, Tom Raley's stores looked like they were being run by themselves.  Mr. Raley's stores were a total mess.  Who is Raley trying to deceive in his 1972 article?
Wow, Raley is talking about going public. Yeah, Frank (golf ball in the mouth) McMinn was telling  Nordby when he was hired that he would receive some stock when Raley's went public.   Raley indicates in this  article  he wants to expand in a couple of years.  In two years,  Raley thinks his sales should be around $100 million.  Instead, for some reason, less than eight months later, in June of 1973, with annual sales being around $75 million he decided to buy a chain of stores in Nevada that are losing money called Eagle Thrifty.  Yeah Right

Why did Tom Raley promote Charles Collings to be president of his stores and not his son in law Jim Teel?  Was it because Raley needed a real sharp con man to deceive everybody in town?  Based on the amount of theft that Nordby uncovered, going undetected throughout the entire Raley grocery store operation, there is no way that Raley's company in 1972 could have been "doing very well" as Raley stated in one of the above paragraphs. 

While Raley wants to talk about his produce suppliers and his produce warehouse, Nordby exposed Raley's produce suppliers to how they were cleverly overcharging Raley's stores whenever a buyer at Raley's ordered produce over the phone with their produce suppliers.  Raley's invoices didn't show the same price that was given over the telephone.

 

Mr. Raley's people simply weren't prepared to operate any kind of business back in 1972.  This is the last paragraph that was reported by the Sacramento Bee newspaper back in October of 1972!
This article states that the purchase was in cash.  Yeah right...This article was just designed to deceive Raley's creditors, Raley's employee's, and the community into believing that everything was OK at Raley's.  They could go out and buy a chain of stores with cash...yeah right!  Not what Raley's history book states.
This kind of dishonesty was going on at Tom Raley's company.  Tom Raley was not doing well during the time that this article was being written in October of 1972.
Raley's was just a den of thieves when this October, 1972 article ran in the Sacramento Bee.
<a href="http://pi.b5z.net/i/u/1350838/f/Don_McLean_-_Bye_Bye_Miss_American_Pie.MP3">Play the media using the stand alone Player</a>
 
Site Mailing List  Sign Guest Book  View Guest Book 
HE MADE RALEY'S SUCCESSFUL AND RALEY'S DEFRAUDED HIM!

RALEY'S EXPOSED

SACRAMENTO, CA

Email: truth@raleysexposed.com

Create your own website
WebStudio Website Builder