Vons HQ in Arcadia Welcomes First Woman President Lori Raya

Описание: Few people in Arcadia are aware that all 277 Vons and Pavillions grocery stores are run from a corporate headquarters building in Arcadia.
Fewer still may know that last month Lori Raya was named the first woman President of Vons in the company's 106-year history.
Raya formally met many of the 234 employees in the Arcadia headquarters Wednesday, Feb. 8, for the first time. Some of them have been around long enough to remember that their office building just north of Huntington Drive between Sunset and Michilinda was once the old May Company store. Only those employees and a few others realize that the escalators in that old store are still in use at the corporate office, which also now features a gymnasium.
After the most important focus for Raya of serving customers and the managers of the stores who deal with customers firsthand — she even told employees to take a call from store before answering a call from their President — Raya said it is important to her to make sure Vons is gives back to the community in which it is based, Arcadia. "We are part of the community," she told ArcadiasBest.com and the Arcadia Chamber of Commerce.