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A supermarket produce department

Supermarket Operating Portfolio

Four banners.
One operating spine.

Community grocery retail serving diverse California markets. Each banner keeps the identity its neighbourhood already knows; all four share purchasing, merchandising, distribution, and logistics.

Retail Platform

4

Supermarket Brands

Supported by in-house food distribution, a 30+ truck fleet, and established wholesale supplier relationships.

Operating Brands

Community retail,
brand by brand.

Brand affiliations are management-provided and subject to customary verification.

Alex Group is a privately held holding company overseeing a portfolio of independently operated supermarket and food businesses. Each portfolio company maintains its own operating structure, management, and market identity, while benefiting from the broader strategic resources and experience of Alex Group.

A full fruit and vegetable display
01

La Princesa

Supermarkets

Community-oriented grocery retail operations serving diverse California markets.

Wide view down a grocery aisle
02

La Favorita

Supermarkets

Supermarket operations supported by experienced purchasing, merchandising, and store teams.

Fruit arranged on market shelving
03

Mi Tierra

Supermarkets

Grocery platform focused on fresh products, value, and neighbourhood convenience.

Fresh cuts in a butcher's display counter
04

Mi Rancho

Supermarkets

Retail grocery operations aligned with Alex Group's broader supply and logistics capabilities.

Fruit and vegetables across market stalls
Bowls of tomatoes and peppers
Produce in green crates on the sidewalk
A vendor at his market stall
Baskets overflowing with fruit and vegetables
Vegetables and a scale at a market stall
Refrigerated dairy cases in a supermarket
Close view of fresh vegetables
Fresh vegetables in market crates

Community Retail

Neighbourhood stores,
group buying power.

Each banner keeps the identity its trade area already knows. What changes behind the counter is purchasing power, delivery frequency, and access to capital.

Departments

Every banner runs
the same counters.

Fresh departments are run in-house across all four brands, supplied by the group's own distribution.

A supermarket produce department

Frutas y Verduras

Produce

Fresh fruit and vegetables merchandised in-house and resupplied off the group's own trucks.

A supermarket meat counter under Carnicería signage

Carnicería

Meat Counter

Full-service butchery — the department that decides whether a neighbourhood market keeps its customers.

Fresh seafood laid out on crushed ice

Pescadería

Seafood

Supplied through M&J, the group's own wholesale meat and seafood operation in Paramount.

A supermarket floor with Cremería and salsa counters

Abarrotes

Grocery

Centre-store grocery bought at group scale through established wholesale relationships.

Spices and grains on a market stall

Chiles y Especias

Chillies & Spices

The dry goods and specialty lines a general-market chain does not carry properly.

Heirloom tomatoes in wooden crates

Productos Frescos

Daily Fresh

Short-shelf-life lines that only work when delivery is frequent and the fleet is your own.

How the Stores Run

Fresh departments,
run in-house.

01

Fresh Departments

Meat, seafood, produce, and grocery merchandising run in-house across every banner.

02

Community Retail

Community-oriented stores serving diverse California markets under their own banners.

03

Purchasing & Supply

Wholesale supplier relationships and coordinated inventory flow across every banner.

04

Scalable Operations

Multi-brand operating experience supported by logistics and capital access.

Core Operating Experience

Forty years of
running these.

What the group has actually done, rather than what it intends to do.

  • 01Supermarket ownership, store operations, merchandising, purchasing, and customer service.
  • 02Meat, seafood, grocery, and produce procurement and distribution.
  • 03Transportation, delivery, warehousing, inventory movement, and logistics coordination.
  • 04Retail and other income-producing commercial real estate assets.
  • 05Hospitality services and California investment opportunities.

All operating, financial, workforce, affiliation, and portfolio figures are management-provided and subject to verification.

Fruit arranged on market shelving

Add Your Store to the Portfolio

Independent operators: there is a fifth banner available.

If you built a market that deserves to keep running after you step back, the group buys stores to operate them — not to strip them. Bring us one location or a portfolio.

Submit an OpportunityCall 805-268-3615

Confidential review · No listing agreement required · Sellers, brokers, lenders, and capital partners welcome