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'''Jewel-Osco''' is a [[supermarket]] [[chain store|chain]] headquartered in [[Itasca, Illinois|Itasca]], Illinois, a Chicago suburb.<ref>"[http://www.jewelosco.com/about/ About Us]." Jewel-Osco Grocery Stores. Retrieved on February 14, 2011. "Jewel-Osco Headquarters 150 Pierce Itasca, IL 60143"{{dead link|date=August 2015}}</ref> Jewel-Osco has 185 stores across northern, central, and western [[Illinois]]; eastern [[Iowa]]; and portions of northwest [[Indiana]].<ref name=SVU-Jewel>[http://www.supervalu.com/sv-webapp/retail/banners/jewel.jsp Jewel-Osco], SuperValu. Last accessed February 24, 2007.{{dead link|date=August 2015}}</ref> Jewel-Osco and Jewel are currently wholly owned [[subsidiary|subsidiaries]] of [[Boise, Idaho]]-based [[Albertsons]]. The company original started as a door-to-door coffee delivery service before it expanded into delivering non-perishable groceries and later into grocery stores, and supermarkets.
'''Jewel-Osco''' is a [[supermarket]] [[chain store|chain]] headquartered in [[Itasca, Illinois|Itasca]], Illinois, a Chicago suburb.<ref>"[http://www.jewelosco.com/about/ About Us]." Jewel-Osco Grocery Stores. Retrieved on February 14, 2011. "Jewel-Osco Headquarters 150 Pierce Itasca, IL 60143" {{wayback|url=http://www.jewelosco.com/about/ |date=20130629153402 }}</ref> Jewel-Osco has 185 stores across northern, central, and western [[Illinois]]; eastern [[Iowa]]; and portions of northwest [[Indiana]].<ref name=SVU-Jewel>[http://www.supervalu.com/sv-webapp/retail/banners/jewel.jsp Jewel-Osco], SuperValu. Last accessed February 24, 2007.{{dead link|date=August 2015}}</ref> Jewel-Osco and Jewel are currently wholly owned [[subsidiary|subsidiaries]] of [[Boise, Idaho]]-based [[Albertsons]]. The company original started as a door-to-door coffee delivery service before it expanded into delivering non-perishable groceries and later into grocery stores, and supermarkets.


==History==
==History==
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===Albertsons and SuperValu===
===Albertsons and SuperValu===
[[Albertsons]] acquired American Stores' holdings, including Jewel and Jewel-Osco stores, in 1999.<ref name="Hoover-Jewel">[http://www.hoovers.com/jewel-osco/--ID__109103--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml Jewel-Osco information], Hoovers.com, Last accessed January 17, 2007.{{dead link|date=August 2015}}</ref>
[[Albertsons]] acquired American Stores' holdings, including Jewel and Jewel-Osco stores, in 1999.<ref name="Hoover-Jewel">[http://www.hoovers.com/jewel-osco/--ID__109103--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml Jewel-Osco information], Hoovers.com, Last accessed January 17, 2007. {{wayback|url=http://www.hoovers.com/jewel-osco/--ID__109103--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml |date=20110607072907 }}</ref>


Seven years later, parent company Albertsons and its stores would be taken over by two separate groups. On May 30, 2006, shareholders approved the break-up of Albertsons. All Jewel-Osco and Jewel Food Stores outside of [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]], Illinois were now wholly owned by [[SuperValu (United States)|SuperValu]]. The Springfield stores, meanwhile, were acquired by an investment group led by [[Cerberus Capital Management]]. Both of those have since been sold to [[Niemann Foods]], an independent operator of grocery stores, supermarkets and convenience stores in Central Illinois which now operates them under the [[Cub Foods]]–County Market brand. All free-standing Osco drugstores are now owned by [[CVS Pharmacy]]. The Osco name is still used for pharmacies within Albertsons, Jewel, Star Market and [[Shaw's Supermarkets|Shaw's]].
Seven years later, parent company Albertsons and its stores would be taken over by two separate groups. On May 30, 2006, shareholders approved the break-up of Albertsons. All Jewel-Osco and Jewel Food Stores outside of [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]], Illinois were now wholly owned by [[SuperValu (United States)|SuperValu]]. The Springfield stores, meanwhile, were acquired by an investment group led by [[Cerberus Capital Management]]. Both of those have since been sold to [[Niemann Foods]], an independent operator of grocery stores, supermarkets and convenience stores in Central Illinois which now operates them under the [[Cub Foods]]–County Market brand. All free-standing Osco drugstores are now owned by [[CVS Pharmacy]]. The Osco name is still used for pharmacies within Albertsons, Jewel, Star Market and [[Shaw's Supermarkets|Shaw's]].

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Jewel-Osco
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryRetail
Founded1899 (Chicago, Illinois, U.S.)
HeadquartersItasca, Illinois, U.S.
Number of locations
176
Key people
Robert Miller, Chairman and CEO
Productssupermarkets/food-drug stores
ParentAlbertsons
Websitewww.jewelosco.com
For the defunct Australia supermarket chain see Jewel Food Stores (Australia).

Jewel-Osco is a supermarket chain headquartered in Itasca, Illinois, a Chicago suburb.[1] Jewel-Osco has 185 stores across northern, central, and western Illinois; eastern Iowa; and portions of northwest Indiana.[2] Jewel-Osco and Jewel are currently wholly owned subsidiaries of Boise, Idaho-based Albertsons. The company original started as a door-to-door coffee delivery service before it expanded into delivering non-perishable groceries and later into grocery stores, and supermarkets.

History

Jewel Food Stores logo until 1980.

Beginnings with home deliveries

In 1899, Frank Vernon Skiff founded Jewel in Chicago, Illinois, as a door-to-door coffee delivery service. In 1902, Skiff partnered with his brother-in-law Frank P. Ross, renaming the venture the Jewel Tea Company. By 1903, they has six routes and then 12 routes in 1904 with expansion into Michigan City, Kankakee, and Kewanee.[3] There were 850 routes by 1915.

In 1929, the company built a new office, warehouse, and coffee roasting facility in suburban Barrington, Illinois, creating hundreds of local jobs despite the Great Depression.[4][5] Area residents nicknamed the new five-story headquarters the "Gray Lady" due to its sophisticated art deco style.[6][7] The Barrington location served as the headquarters and main warehouse facility for both the home delivery and food store divisions until the completion of the new warehouse and office complex at Melrose Park in 1953.[8]

In 1949, deliveries were provided on 1876 routes in 43 states to customers mostly in small towns while customers in cities could go to 154 company owned grocery stores.[3]

Later, the service later expanded to included 350 grocery and 10,000 general merchandise items by 1981 when Jewel decided to sell its "Jewel Home Shopping Service" division to its employees and divest itself from its roots.[9] At the time of the divesture, the division provided service to customers in mostly small towns located along 1000 routes in 42 states.[10] The division became a 700-member owned cooperative called "J.T.'s General Store" in which each route sales persons were independent self-employed agents.[11]

In October 1994, a group of the company's managers acquired the assets of "J.T.'s General Store" and "created J.T. Dealers Sales and Service". By 1995, "J.T. Dealer Sales and Service" was providing service to 60,000 customers along 250 routes in 35 states.[12]

Grocery stores

The company's expansion continued throughout the mid-20th century. In 1932, Jewel acquired the Chicago unit of the Canadian firm Loblaw Groceterias, Inc., then a chain of 77 self-service stores,[13] as well as four Chicago grocery stores operated by the Middle West Stores Company, and began operating them under the name Jewel Food Stores.[14] In 1934, Jewel Food Stores merged with Jewel Tea Company.

The name of the parent company remained as the "Jewel Tea Company" until 1967 when the stockholders voted to change the name of the company to Jewel Companies, Inc. to better reflect the expansion of the into different markets.[15] In 1967, the company went public and its stock was traded on the Midwest Stock Exchange.[16]

Eisner acquisition, expanding south

In 1957, Jewel acquired the Champaign, Illinois-based Eisner Food Stores, located in downstate Illinois and later in west central Indiana (Lafayette, West Lafayette, and Bloomington).[17][18] This acquisition was significant since it was the first time Jewel maintained the new acquisition as a separate division within the Jewel organization with the acquired stores keeping their original names, setting the pattern for future acquisitions.

After Jewel's hostile takeover by American Stores in 1984, American Stores decided to save money by merging Eisner directly into Jewel, converting all stores to the Jewel name[19][20] and slowly started to sell off the former Eisner properties. One of the first properties to let go was the former Eisner warehouse facility in Champaign in 1986.[21] With the Champaign warehouse facility gone, many former Eisner locations became less profitable since they had to be serviced from the more distant Jewel warehouse at Melrose Park, justifing the elimination of those locations. The west central Indiana stores, 3 in Lafayette and 2 in Bloomington, were sold off in 1990.[22][23][24] Jewel also closed central Illinois locations that were formerly Eisner in Decatur (in 1995),[25] Champaign-Urbana (in 1998),[26] and Springfield (2006).[27]

Non-food retail expansion

In 1961, Jewel acquired two growing non-food related retain chains, Chicago-based Osco Drug stores,[28] and Brighton, Massachusetts-based Turn Style discount department stores,[29] to complement their food store division when building one-stop shopping destinations, such as the new Family Centers and Jewel-Osco (Eisner-Osco, Star-Osco, Buttrey-Osco) food-drug combinations. The acquisition of both Osco and Turn Style allowed Jewel other areas of retailing and to expand the geographic range of its main retail food distribution business.

1960s-1970s expansion

During the 1960s, Jewel expanded by acquiring several chains. Jewel acquired Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Star Market in 1964.[30] The acquisition of Star Market also gave Jewel control of Brigham's Ice Cream. In 1965, Jewel expanded into the convenience store business by opening Kwik Shoppe, then renaming the chain White Hen Pantry. In 1966, Jewel acquired Great Falls, Montana-based Buttrey Food Stores, expanding the chain westward all the way to Montana.[15]

Before 1970, Jewel stores were typically located on arterial city streets. Between 1970 and 1990, Jewel moved or expanded most of its stores to be freestanding buildings with ample parking. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Jewel built and operated many Jewel-Osco side-by-side stores, but most construction after 1983 consolidated Jewel and Osco stores together as one large store under one roof. Today, the two stores present to the customer as one unit; for instance, a customer can check out any items at Jewel or Osco registers, find Jewel and Osco merchandise commingled throughout the store, and can call one telephone number to reach their Jewel-Osco. However, each operating unit keeps its own separate marketing identity to the public as a "food store" or a "drug store." Jewel opened five stores in Michigan in the 1970s, but closed all five in 1996.[31]

Until 2010, Jewel and Osco stores under the same roof have had separate operations, managers, ordering and receiving procedures, budgets, and employees. A 2010 cost-saving measure brought both Jewel and Osco oversight under one store director for each site.[32]

American Stores

A current Jewel-Osco combo store.

American Stores made an offer to acquire the Jewel Companies in 1984. The Jewel Companies, Inc. chairman Weston Christopherson was opposed to a merger and Sam Skaggs was forced to engineer a hostile takeover. On June 1, 1984, American Stores tendered an offer worth $1.1 billion for 67 percent of Jewel's outstanding shares at $70 per share.

For two weeks, Jewel's management refused all comment on the offer, maintaining its silence even at a stormy shareholder's meeting before which Jewel shareholder groups controlling 20 percent of the company's stock had come out in favor of negotiating with American Stores. Finally, on June 14, Sam Skaggs and Jewel president Richard Cline reached an agreement after an all-night bargaining session. American Stores raised its bid for Jewel's preferred stock, increasing the total bid to $1.15 billion in cash and securities. In return, Jewel dropped plans for a defensive acquisition of Household International Inc. and accepted American Stores' offer.[33] American Stores soon sold Buttrey Food Stores (in 1990),[34] Star Market (in 1994),[35] and White Hen Pantry (in 1985),[36][37] to pay off debt and for other reasons.

1990s expansion

In 1989, American Stores expanded to Florida using the Jewel-Osco and Jewel-T names, but operating as a separate division distinct from the midwest Jewel-Osco operations.[38] Florida was considered a good market for Jewel because of the high number of Chicagoans who had relocated to that state.[citation needed] However, after a few years, Jewel closed those stores. To consolidate the names of some of its subsidiaries under one title with nationwide recognition, American Stores renamed some of its Skaggs-Alpha Beta stores to Jewel-Osco in mid-September 1991. American replaced the Skaggs-Alpha Beta name with that of Jewel-Osco on all 76 stores in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arkansas, expanding the chain south.

In the late 1990s, Jewel purchased a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, food chain and opened fifteen Jewel-Osco combo stores in the Milwaukee metro area, some of which employed urban designs.[39][better source needed]

Albertsons and SuperValu

Albertsons acquired American Stores' holdings, including Jewel and Jewel-Osco stores, in 1999.[40]

Seven years later, parent company Albertsons and its stores would be taken over by two separate groups. On May 30, 2006, shareholders approved the break-up of Albertsons. All Jewel-Osco and Jewel Food Stores outside of Springfield, Illinois were now wholly owned by SuperValu. The Springfield stores, meanwhile, were acquired by an investment group led by Cerberus Capital Management. Both of those have since been sold to Niemann Foods, an independent operator of grocery stores, supermarkets and convenience stores in Central Illinois which now operates them under the Cub Foods–County Market brand. All free-standing Osco drugstores are now owned by CVS Pharmacy. The Osco name is still used for pharmacies within Albertsons, Jewel, Star Market and Shaw's.

SuperValu announced on January 5, 2007, that it would offer for sale its Jewel-Osco stores in the Milwaukee area.[41] Pick 'n Save agreed to take five of the 15 stores.[42] Two other stores were purchased by Lena's Food Market.[43] SuperValu announced to its workers that the remaining stores, if unsold, would close at the end of March.[44]

Today

Jewel-Osco locations in purple

Jewel-Osco employs more than 45,000 associates.[citation needed] Its customer base gave it a 45 percent share of the grocery market in Chicago,[40] trailed by the Safeway Inc.-owned Dominick's chain (ranking second at 15 percent) before its closure.[45] Consumers from 80 percent of all households in the Chicago metropolitan area visit a Jewel-Osco store at least once a month.[46]

On January 10, 2013, SuperValu announced the sale of Jewel food stores to Cerberus Capital Management in a $3.3 billion deal.[47][48] The deal closed on March 21, 2013.[49]

Past ventures

Over the years, Jewel has tried other concepts and ideas. It is credited with selling the first generic brand product line in 1977.[50] The packaging had no name or pictures — just a list of contents, UPC, and required nutritional information on a white package with a pseudo-army-surplus, olive-green stripe. The generic line was given the brand "Econo Buy" in the early 1990s.

Jewel Grand Bazaar

In 1973, the chain opened an experimental Jewel Grand Bazaar, on the southwest side of Chicago; a store that encompassed an entire city block at the northwest corner of 54th Street and Pulaski Road.[51][52] This store featured bulk packaging, free samples on weekends, and 24-hour service. See photos: photos This experimental store was in service from 1973 until the 1980s, when it was reformatted as a standard Jewel-Osco combo store. A second Grand Bazaar was opened in 1974 at 87 W. 87th St in Chicago[53] and in 1977, a "Jewel Grand Bazaar" was opened at 6505 W. Diversey in the Brickyard Mall. A fourth location was opened in Franklin Park in 1975.[54]

During the 1990s, the Diversey Avenue Grand Bazaar was reformatted to a regular Jewel grocery store, but continued to carry some of the traditional "Grand Bazaar" features such as bulk foods. With the reconstruction of the Brickyard Mall in 2003, the Grand Bazaar store was demolished and replaced with a smaller Jewel grocery store. Rockford, Illinois also had a Jewel Grand Bazaar. There was also one on Grand Ave. and Kostner Ave. on Chicago's West side. The last "Grand Bazaar" format store was opened in 1976 at Grand ave. and Mannheim road in Franklin Park, Illinois. This building is currently being operated as a Jewel-Osco. Neither tbe Chicago Tribune nor the Chicago Sun-Times record when these stores were actually converted or closed.

Turn Style

In 1961, Jewel acquired a chain of discount stores in the Chicago area called Turn Style. This chain was moderately successful throughout the 1960s. Some locations were combined with Jewel's supermarket brands to form Family Centers. In 1978, 19 of 22 locations were sold to May Department Stores and converted to the Venture format.[55][56] Other stores were converted into large Osco Drug Stores.

Jewel T

In the late 1970s and early 1980s Jewel operated a no-frills grocery chain called Jewel T. The first location was opened in New Port Richey, Florida in 1973.[57] Jewel T stores operated outside of Jewel's home trading area, some as far away as New Jersey and Florida. The chain was sold to Save-A-Lot in 1984.[58]

Other ventures

In 1979, Jewel, under the Osco division, sold four of its five Republic Lumber locations to R & L Lumber, parent company of Handy Andy Home Improvement Center, and closed the fifth.[59] They were located on the west side of Chicago at 4052 W. Grand Ave (a former Jewel opened in 1957 to celebrate the chain's 25th anniversary), Oak Lawn, Arlington Heights and Chicago Heights. A fifth location in Norridge was closed early in 1979 when the lease was not renewed; it later became a Joseph Lumber location.

Beginning in the 1990s, Jewel began installing Jewel Express gas station / convenience stores on its out lots.[60][better source needed] In 2011, Supervalu announced that it was exiting the fuel business and that it would sell or close all fuel stations that it received when it purchased Albertsons which includes the 29 Jewel Express stations that it received. The same announcement said that 27 of the Jewel Express locations would be sold to Alimentation Couche-Tard, the parent of Circle K, and all remaining unsold locations would be closed.[61][62] Some of the these new Circle K locations were paired with the Shell fuel brand.[citation needed]

In 2008, SuperValu converted one of its closed Sunflower Market stores on Clybourn Avenue to an Urban Fresh by Jewel, a smaller store than the usual Jewel, with more upscale and organic products.[63] It was announced that this store would close on October 31, 2009, and there are no plans to open anymore stores under this banner.[64]

In October 2008, Jewel-Osco opened its first LEED certified store at Kinzie & Des Plaines in Chicago.[65] This new store was built with recycled materials and recycled 98% of its construction debris. It features a rooftop garden, uses water-saving devices, has non-ozone-depleting refrigerants in cooling equipment, uses a refrigerant detection system, and has energy efficient lighting.

President's Choice house brand

Jewel-Osco has been offering the Canadian staple President's Choice branded products since 1992.[66] President's Choice is a house brand created and distributed by Loblaw Companies Limited of Toronto, Ontario. Even though both Jewel-Osco and Loblaw's carry President's Choice products, both companies' past and present owners are unrelated. At Jewel, President's Choice has since been supplanted by other house brands, including Culinary Circle and Wild Harvest.

Organizational philosophy

A 1972 book written by Jewel senior leaders, The Jewel Concepts, stressed good citizenship within the community, "watching the horizon," and sponsorship of young people.

In an Illinois Retail Merchants Association online article, retired Jewel-Osco chairman Don Perkins reflects, "Jewel has a tradition of people orientation." One of these traditions came in the form of the "first assistant" philosophy of management.[2] Each higher-level manager was to see himself or herself as serving the employees he or she managed. On the store level, this would mean that the manager would be the "first assistant" to the employees by making personal contact and taking personal interest, solving problems, suggesting solutions, and using flexibility in order to best serve the employees' concerns. Then the floor employees' duty was to be in service as the "first assistant" to the customers.

Jewel also was progressive in creating partnerships with vendors, at a time when the practice was rare.

Stores

Current stores

  • Albertsons LLC owns these Jewel-Osco stores:
    • Jewel-Osco and Jewel stores (168 stores), located in Chicago metro area, including northwestern Indiana.
    • Jewel-Osco and Jewel stores (10 stores), located in Central and Western Illinois, Eastern Iowa.

Former stores

  • These former Jewel-Osco or Jewel stores are now owned by Niemann Foods and were rebranded as Cub Foods–County Market
    • Jewel-Osco (2 stores) located in Springfield, Illinois (originally acquired by Cerberus)
  • All freestanding Osco drugstores (90 stores in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Wisconsin) were sold to CVS and rebranded as CVS/pharmacy.

See also

References

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  19. ^ "Eisners have a new name and new look". Bloomington Herald-Telephone. May 8, 1985. p. 19. Eisner Food Stores in Bloomington opened this week with a new name. Jewel Food Stores. the name of the parent company, and a new look. Jewel purchased the Champaign. Ill.-based Eisner Food Store in the 1960s. The first Bloomington Eisner store and a sister Osco Drug Store was opened at 514 College Mall Road in 1970 and was remodeled in 1977. A second Eisner, which also included an Osco Drug Store, was opened in the Whitehall Plaza shopping Center in 1982. Jewel, the suburban Chicago based regional chain of over 200 super-markets in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Michigan, was founded over half century ago, In 1984 Jewel was acquired by American Stores Co.
  20. ^ "From the J&C Archives: June 29, 2015". Lafayette Journal & Courier . June 29, 2015. 19th (last) picture in image gallery. Joe Rupp, top, and Jim Volland, bottom, of Doyle Sign Co. in Chicago change the Eisner Food Store and Osco Drug sign, 950 Navjo Drive, West Lafayetee, to Jewel and Osco. Jewel Food Stores Inc. has announced that more grocery items and remodeled departments are part of a new image the company is presenting this month while changing the three Greater Lafayette Eisner Food Stores signs to Jewel. Photo taken July 3, 1985.
  21. ^ "Gateway will replace Jewel as Eisner supplier". Supermarket News. October 27, 1986 – via Highbeam Research. Gateway will replace Jewel as supplier of products and services to the more than 60 independently owned and operated Eisner stores in Illinois. The Eisner stores had been supplied by Jewel's Champaign, Ill., warehouse, which is scheduled to close Oct. 31 and is for sale, according to a Jewel spokesman. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
  22. ^ Creek, Julie (August 17, 1989). "Jewel sale rumors worry employees". Bloomington Herald-Times. Rumors of a possible sale of Jewel Food stores in Bloomington and Lafayette to an Indianapolis-based company have prompted employees at Bloomington Jewel stores to ask a food workers union for help in protecting their jobs. The Chicago-based Jewel Company operates two stores in Bloomington, on College Mall Road and Whitehall Pike. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
  23. ^ "Jewel plans to close Bloomington stores". Bloomington Herald-Times. December 27, 1989. Bloomington's two Jewel Food Stores will close Jan. 10, the company announced late Tuesday. The assets of the stores - one at 512 College Mall Road and the other in Whitehall Plaza - will be purchased by Wetterau Inc., the St. Louis, Mo.-based food distributor that has a large warehouse and distribution operation in Bloomington. The east-side Jewel is expected to become a Mr. D's and the west-side store to become an IGA. Jewel came to Bloomington about 10 years ago when it purchased the Eisner Co., which operated the 512 College Mall Road store. The west-side Jewel/Osco opened in Whitehall Plaza when it was built. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
  24. ^ "Former homeless man wins $25,000: Jewel out". Bloomington Herald-Times. January 10, 1990. Jewel out - IGA, Mr. D's move in. The Highland Village IGA in Bloomington will move Friday to the former Jewel Food Store in Whitehall Plaza. Jewel this week closed its two groceries in Bloomington. The store at 512 College Mall Road will become a Mr. D's Supermarket. Wetterau Inc., a regional food distributor, bought the two stores from Jewel and then negotiated sales to Mr. D's, an Indianapolis grocer, and Larry Grubb, owner of Highland Village IGA and Cascades IGA in Bloomington. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
  25. ^ Kleine, Ted (January 8, 1995). "Jewel to close 2 stores - Osco Drug Stores will remain open". Herald & Review. p. A1. The city's two Jewel stores will close Jan. 28, laying off 115 workers, the company announced Saturday. Both stores were formerly called Eisner. The name was changed in the mid-1980s when Jewel Food Stores, the parent company, was bought by American Store Co. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
  26. ^ Cook, Anne (April 6, 1998). "Jewel will close down two C-U stores after April 18". The News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana). The Jewel stores in Champaign and Urbana will close for good after the business day April 18, managers said. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
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  29. ^ "Jewel Tea Co. Set To Buy Turnstyle, Boston Area Chain". Women's Wear Daily. Vol. 103, no. 111. December 7, 1961. p. 6. Jewel Tea Co. Inc., the nation's 10th ranking supermarket chain, has reached an "agreement in principle" to acquire Turnstyle Corp., four self-service department stores in the Boston area. Harold P. Sparks, president of the Boston-area department store group, was elected a vice-president of Jewel Tea Co. Turnstyle would, in effect, become the third arm in Jewel's projected plans for self-service family centers combining supermarket, department store and variety-drug store units under one roof. The eastern firm will assist in the development of such combinations, the first of which is planned for completion next spring in Racine, Wis. In family centers, it will concentrate primarily on soft goods but also carry other products. Osco Drug Inc., a consolidated subsidiary of the Jewel Tea Co., Inc., is another major link in the family center concept as the food chain intensifies its diversification program in self-servicing. Osco will handle a line of general variety goods, including hardware accessories, small appliances, outdoor furnishings, and normal drug merchandise. Turnstyle opened its first store five years ago in Lynn, Mass., and also operates three other self-service department stores in that area. Link via ProQuest.
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