Visiting Papa's Work

Papa works for one of the major grocery store chains in Southern California, and this afternoon, we got to go to Papa's work and take a tour of the brand new corporate offices that opened last month. Today's tour was pretty cool, because the last time we got to take a tour of where Papa worked, it was just over 5 years ago at their old facility, and Hannah was 2 1/2 years old. Upon checking in, because Papa knew his way around the joint pretty well, we got our own personal tour led by Papa. The place was huge and was a lot of walking, just inside the offices. One of the really cool areas was the room in which they train the checkers. The room was filled with checkstands and cash registers and conveyor belts where groceries are placed prior to being scanned and after, waiting to be bagged. Here is a future checker for Stater Bros. Markets. Once through the corporate offices, we went outside and loaded onto trams that took us out to the grocery distribution warehouses. The dry grocery warehouse is completely built, they are now working on building the shelving that will hold all the groceries once they are moved over after the holidays. The meat, bakery, and refrigerator sections are still in the process of being built and will open up sometime in 2008.It was such a fun couple of hours, getting to see where Papa works and all the happenings around there. I took so many pictures, that I put them into an album, you can check out the rest of our tour here.