For years, Ranen Alvanez was a regular at Scolari’s Food and Drug on Sun Valley Boulevard. As the only full-service grocery store in Sun Valley, it was his closest option for fresh, healthy food — and it was also where he got his first job.
“I used to work here, actually, like, a decade ago, which is pretty cool,” Alvanez said.
But this Scolari’s run, on a Tuesday afternoon in mid-August, was to be Alvanez’s last. That’s because the locally-owned grocery chain shut down last month, after more than 70 years in business…