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    Thrifty ice cream — a portal to childhood — is being sold to Albertsons. What does that mean for its future?

    by Alejandra Reyes-Velarde And Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times May 23, 2018 6 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - When Mike Becker's family visited Los Angeles this year, he took his three sons to a place that would help them understand his Southern California childhood. It wasn't the beach. It wasn't Hollywood. It was a drugstore selling Thrifty ice cream.

    The 43-year-old attorney lives in New York, and he hadn't enjoyed a Thrifty cone since he was 10, when he moved out of Burbank. When he spotted the Thrifty logo outside a Rite Aid store in downtown L.A., Becker wanted to show his sons what he experienced growing up. He pulled over and parked. He hauled the kids into the store. He bought them the ice cream, dipped to order in Thrifty's distinctive cylinder-shaped scoops.

    "As a little kid, with change in your pocket, it was easy to get an ice cream cone," Becker recalled. "It was so cheap."

    That mix of low prices and nostalgia, coupled with a reputation for tastiness - Thrifty

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