Southern California's largest privately held supermarket chain reaches Encinitas via the Stater Bros. Markets location on North El Camino Real, a banner founded August 17, 1936, in Yucaipa when twin brothers purchased a single storefront for a $600 down payment. The full-service deli counter slices meats and cheeses to order, rounding out a grab-and-go lunch run alongside the sandwich builds at Urbane Cafe on Encinitas Boulevard. A scratch bakery department produces decorated cakes, dinner rolls, and seasonal pies under the Stater Bros. house label, while the butcher counter breaks USDA-graded beef, pork, and poultry in-house. The natural pet food endcap supplements the standard kibble inventory with grain-free and limited-ingredient formulas, a niche expanded by EarthWise Pet Cardiff for raw and freeze-dried diets in Cardiff-by-the-Sea. Distribution runs through the chain's 2.1-million-square-foot San Bernardino warehouse campus, which consolidated eight prior facilities when it opened in 2008.