Editing Jewel-Osco (section)

===Jewel Express===
In 1997, Albertsons added gas pumps and a small convenience store in front of a store in Eagle, Idaho.<ref name=erg-1999may06>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19990506&id=DFFWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zOsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2016,1432753&hl=en |title=Springfield Albertsons Looks To Add Fuel Center |newspaper=[[Eugene Register-Guard]] |date=May 6, 1999 |page=1B |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->}}</ref><ref name=dn-1999apr13>{{cite news |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/691142/Gas-pumps-coming-soon-to-Albertsons.html?pg=all |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927124644/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/691142/Gas-pumps-coming-soon-to-Albertsons.html?pg=all |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 27, 2015 |title=Gas pumps coming soon to Albertson's |newspaper=[[Deseret News]] |date=April 13, 1999 |first=Max B. |last=Knudson |quote=Albertson's has proven the concept works. It first added gas pumps in November 1997 at its store in Eagle, Idaho. Since then, pumps have gone in at Albertson's in Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma and Texas.}}</ref> Since the experiment was successful, Albertsons decided to expand this concept to all stores that would be able to support it and was allowed by local government. The new concept was called '''Albertsons Express'''.

After Albertsons acquired American Stores in 1999, Albertsons wanted to expand the Albertsons Express concept to the former American Stores chains.<ref name=npn-2001oct>{{cite news |title=Groceries and gasoline |magazine=National Petroleum News |date=October 2001 |pages=18–27 |volume=93 |issue=11 |last=Reid |first=Keith |quote=For example, Albertson's has announced a 500-site goal in the next five years. Albertson's Chicago-area chain, Jewel Food Stores, is already ramping up for the gasoline offer. "The whole idea for fuel centers came to us when we were acquired by Albertson's in 1999," said Karen Ramos, spokesperson for Albertson's Jewel Food Stores that serve the Chicago area. "There were about a 150 Albertson's selling gasoline nationwide and we could see that it's a great convenience for customers to buy fuel while they're buying groceries. This program has been very much a success. |id={{ProQuest|223286539}}}}</ref> The first '''Jewel Express''' was opened in front of a Jewel-Osco in South Elgin in October 2000.<ref name=ccb-2000oct02>{{cite news |title=Dominick's set to give it the gas |newspaper=[[Crain's Chicago Business]] |date=October 2, 2000 |page=3 |volume=23 |issue=41 |last=Gallun |first=Alby F. |quote=Melrose Park-based jewel, the largest Chicago-area grocery chain, will open its first Jewel Express in the area on Wednesday. The gas station, built in the parking lot of an operating supermarket in South Elgin, will include six pumps and a 2,000-square-foot convenience store. Jewel expects to open three more gas stations by yearend, and has targeted as many as 30 Chicago-area sites for development. |id={{ProQuest|198387261}}}}</ref><ref name=prn-2000nov02>{{cite news |title=Jewel-Osco Joins Fight Against Diabetes |work=[[PR Newswire]] |date=November 2, 2000 |page=1 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |quote=Jewel-Osco is the only Midwest retailer operating both combination food and drug stores and freestanding drug stores. Of the retailer's 275 locations, 191 are combination Jewel-Osco stores and 84 are freestanding Osco Drug stores. The first Jewel Express fuel center opened in South Elgin in October of 2000. Jewel-Osco is the Midwest Region of Albertson's, Inc. |id={{ProQuest|444198847}}}}</ref>

In attempt to increase revenue in 2009, Supervalu enhanced the Express concept by enlarging the convenience store, added more marketing tie ins with the main store and added a car wash.<ref name=cdn-2009dec23>{{cite news |url=http://www.cspnet.com/industry-news-analysis/marketing-strategies/articles/new-store-jewel-express |title=New Store: Jewel Express: Prototype focuses on foodservice, private label and connection to main store |website=CSP Daily News |date=December 23, 2009 |first=Steve |last=Holtz}}</ref> This change did not help Supervalu's bottom line so 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.<ref name=ccb-2011sep07>{{cite news |url=http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20110907/NEWS07/110909921/jewel-osco-gas-stations-sold-as-parent-supervalu-looks-to-lower-costs |title=Jewel-Osco gas stations sold as parent Supervalu looks to lower costs |newspaper=[[Crain's Chicago Business]] |date=September 7, 2011 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->}}</ref><ref name=nh-2011oct10>{{cite news |url=http://www.nwherald.com/mobile/article.xml/articles/2011/10/10/r_5m4mh2d1shsbmjxxmfahmg/index.xml |title=Two area Jewel stations sold to Circle K group |newspaper=[[Northwest Herald]] |date=October 10, 2011 |first=Chris |last=Freeman |access-date=August 22, 2015 |archive-date=September 4, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904053028/http://www.nwherald.com/mobile/article.xml/articles/2011/10/10/r_5m4mh2d1shsbmjxxmfahmg/index.xml |url-status=dead }}</ref> Some of these new Circle K locations were paired with the [[Shell Oil Company|Shell]] fuel brand.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2006/10/02/daily48.html|title=Circle K to sell Shell brand gas|website=bizjournals.com|access-date=2018-01-10}}</ref>{{citation needed|date=August 2015}}

Not all Jewel Express locations closed or converted to Circle K. Two Expresses, one in [[East Moline, Illinois]] and the other in [[Moline, Illinois]] continue with the Jewel Express concept.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}{{original research?|date=March 2022|reason=Personal opinion? Please show us the evidence that your claims are true.}}