Audio Slideshow: A Store Tour Through Two Generations at Northgate

Alfonso Cano at Northgate Gonzalez Market talked to SN about the independent's multi-generational customer base and emphasis on service. 

 

Above are Santa Ana store photos taken during the Fresh Summit Conference & Expo Retail Produce Tour in October and excerpts from a phone interview with Cano in November.

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salim arreola (not verified)
on Dec 6, 2012

Northgate Gonzalez Market Has Been my Store zfor More Than 30 years n it Will be why. It zwould Take ztoo long To List All the. REASONS Recomend. It zto all My Friends N People O deal with. Keep up with The Great Work family n people thay make the Great family. From customerto to employees to advertisers northgate lover n. northgate fan s. Happy Merry Christmas from # 1 customer n fan. Salim arreola

OscarNunez
on Jan 7, 2013

Go Northgate.
My Gift to Our Co Presidents at Northgate for 2013:
Our Spanish Community should be represented at our So. California Main Venues & Atractions & Northgate should be that Representative;
At our L.A. Airports ( L.A. & Orange County's for sure ),
Grand Central Station, U.C.L.A. & USC, the Rose Bowl & L.A. Coliseum,
Dodgers & Angels Baseball Stadiums, Staples Center, etc.

Boy can that family cook. Their Mexican "Antojitos" are second to none.

Would love to see Northgate go into our neighborhoods with the "Northgate Express", the size of their 17th & College Santa Ana Store; To me there are 2 folks that should be in every neighborhood: WalMart & Northgate.

I wish that wonderful family the best in 2013.
Hialeah, Florida

Alfred Romero
on Mar 27, 2013

Northagte is good still a lot room to grow.

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