Editing Jewel-Osco (section)

==Past ventures==
Over the years, Jewel has tried other concepts.  It is credited with selling the first [[generic brand]] product line in 1977.<ref name=mjs-1999jul17>{{cite news |url=http://www2.jsonline.com/food/stohs/jul99/summer071799.asp |title=A historic walk down the aisles of the supermarket |newspaper=[[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]] |date=July 17, 1999 |first=Nancy J. |last=Stohs |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020223225021/http://www.jsonline.com/food/stohs/jul99/summer071799.asp |archive-date=2002-02-23 |url-status=dead}}</ref> 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 olive-green stripe. The generic line was given the brand "Econo Buy" in the early 1990s.{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}}

===Jewel Grand Bazaar===
In 1973, Jewel Companies 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.<ref name=ct-1973sep28>{{cite news |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1973/09/28/page/63/article/jewel-grand-bazaar-has-a-grand-opening |title=Jewel Grand Bazaar has a 'grand' opening |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=September 28, 1973 |first=Karen |last=Schickedanz |page=C9, C12 |id={{ProQuest|170949650}}}}</ref><ref name=ct-1974mar20>{{cite news |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1974/03/20/page/78/article/jewels-grand-bazaar-draws-30-000-weekly |title=Jewel's Grand Bazaar draws 30,000 weekly |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=March 20, 1974 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |page=C10 |quote=Jewel Companies, Onc.'s first Grand Bazaar, which opened last September is serving 30,000 customers a week. The store, at 5320 S. Pulaski Rd., is expected to have food sales of "close to $20 million a year." ...60,000 square feet of space... Jewel has two more Grand Bazaar units under construction which are scheduled to open this summer. |id={{ProQuest|171045753}}}}</ref>  This store featured bulk packaging, free samples on weekends, and 24-hour service.  See photos: [http://www.wtv-zone.com/dpjohnson/60sdiscountstores/page2.html photos] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041213091800/http://www.wtv-zone.com/dpjohnson/60sdiscountstores/page2.html |date=2004-12-13 }} 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<ref name=ct-1974aug16>{{cite news |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1974/08/16/page/58/article/hyperstores-are-jewels-in-the-rough |title=Hyperstores are 'Jewels' in the rough |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=August 16, 1974 |first=George |last=Lazarus |id={{ProQuest|169310591}}}}</ref> 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.<ref name=ct-1975may17>{{cite news |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1975/05/17/page/89/article/business-ticker/index.html |title=Business Ticker |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=May 17, 1975 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |quote=Jewel Food Stores said it will open its fourth Jewel Grand Bazaar Thursday. The facility - the first suburban Grand Bazaar-is the new Frand Plaza Shopping Center in Franklin Park. It will replace the existing store next door at 10135 W. Grand Av. |id={{ProQuest|171246517}}}}</ref>

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.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}{{original research?|date=March 2022}} Rockford, Illinois also had a Jewel Grand Bazaar that opened in 1976 and was converted to a non-union Magna store in 1983.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}} That store closed in 1997.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}} There was also one on Grand Ave. and Kostner Ave. on Chicago's West side.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}} The last "Grand Bazaar" format store was opened in 1975 at Grand ave. and Mannheim road in Franklin Park, Illinois.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}} This building is currently{{when|date=July 2022}} being operated as a Jewel-Osco. Neither the Chicago Tribune nor the Chicago Sun-Times record when these stores were actually converted or closed.

===Turn Style===
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In 1961, Jewel Companies (then Jewel Tea) 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'''. The first Turn Style Family Center was opened in Racine in March 1962.<ref name="ct-1962mar">{{cite news |url=https://chicagotribune.newspapers.com/newspage/374701847/ |title=Jewel Opens Huge New Family Center |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=March 30, 1962 |page=B2 |url-access=subscription |id={{ProQuest|183146487}} |quote=The first Turnstyle Family center operated by the Jewel Tea company was opened last Wednesday at 4901 Washington av. in Racine. The 110,000 square foot center, as developed by Jewel, represents a new concept in retailing.}}</ref> In 1978, 19 of 22  locations were sold to [[May Department Stores]] and converted to the [[Venture Stores|Venture]] format.<ref name=ct-1978mar08>{{cite news |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1978/03/08/page/45/article/jewel-to-sell-turn-styles/ |title=Jewel to sell Turn Styles |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=March 8, 1978 |first=George |last=Lazarus |page=C7 |id={{ProQuest|171614062}}}}</ref><ref name=wwd-1978mar08>{{cite news |title=Venture to acquire 19 stores of Turn Style |newspaper=[[Women's Wear Daily|WWD]] |date=March 8, 1978 |page=54 |volume=136 |issue=46 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |quote=locations in Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Illinois. |id={{ProQuest|1627299842}}}}</ref> Other stores were converted into large Osco Drug Stores.

===Jewel T===
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In the late 1970s and early 1980s,  Jewel Companies operated a no-frills grocery chain called Jewel T (phonetically pronounced "Jewel Tea", as a nod to the former name of the company). The typical store tends to be rather small, 8,000 square feet instead of the typical 30,000 for a full-service supermarket, with a selection rather limited to canned and dry foods and non-perishable with everything sold at a steep discount.<ref name=os-1985aug08 />

To avoid cannibalizing sales from their existing markets in the Midwest and North East Atlantic States, the first Jewel T location was opened in [[New Port Richey, Florida]], in 1977,<ref name=spt-1979apr06>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19790406&id=Bk5SAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RnwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5143,5647866&hl=en |title=President of Jewel T credits feminism, but prefers to talk shop |newspaper=[[St. Petersburg Times]] |date=April 6, 1979 |page=8C |first=Doron |last=Levin |quote=Since 1977 when Jewel T opened its first store in New Port Richey, the chain has grown rapidly to 34 stores in Central Florida and Pennsylvania. Next month Jewel enters Georgia with three new stores in Atlanta.}}</ref> quickly followed by 2 other stores in the St. Petersburg area during the same year.<ref name=spt-1977apr05>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19770405&id=NVwqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jF0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6490,4387885&hl=en |title=Discount Groceries Tackle Supermarts |newspaper=[[St. Petersburg Times]] |date=April 5, 1977 |page=7B |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |quote=Already open are two stores, in New Port Richey and in St. Petersburg. A third store opens April 13 in Bradenton. First to open a few weeks ago was the New Port Richey store, with six cash regiistera in just 6,000-sq. ft. of a former hardware store in U.S. 19, and already Jewel has been forced to enlarge the parking lot to handle the customers.}}</ref> Jewel T expanded into Pennsylvania in 1978 and many suburban Philadelphia kids in this gas crisis era remember mom driving the Vega or Pinto out to Jewel T, and bringing back powdered milk, frozen pretzels, and bulk frozen cherry pielettes.<ref name=ct-1978apr12>{{cite news |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1978/04/12/page/53/article/pennsylvania-to-get-jewel-t |title=Pennsylvania to get Jewel T |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=April 12, 1978 |page=c13 |last=Lazarus |first=George |id={{ProQuest|171624326}}}}</ref> They expanded to Atlanta in 1979.<ref name=ct-1979jan21>{{cite news |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1979/01/21/page/78/article/bargain-stores-booming |title=Bargain stores booming |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=January 21, 1979 |last=Lazarus |first=George |page=N6 |quote=Jewel has 23 Jewel T stores in Florida and seven in eastern Pennsylvania. And Jewel T is about to crack the Atlanta market as part of an expansion. |id={{ProQuest|171852655}}}}</ref> Jewel T had approximately 30 stores in two states at the beginning of 1979<ref name=ct-1979jan21 /> and 44 stores in four states by the following June.<ref name=ct-1979jun24>{{cite news |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1979/06/24/page/113/article/jewel-discount-marts-boom-eye-new-fields/index.html |title=Jewel discount marts boom, eye new fields |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=June 24, 1979 |page=E5 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |quote=The new markets that Jewel intends to enter are Texas and California. The company already operates 44 Jewel T discount stores in Delaware, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania |id={{ProQuest|170090942}}}}</ref>

By the end of 1979, Jewel T had 87 stores located in the states of Florida, Georgia, Texas, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Alabama.<ref name=spei-1979nov26>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19791126&id=BcJaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FVkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5326,3000112&hl=en |title=Jewel T Grocery Store Chain, Begun In 1977, Now Has About 80 Stores Open |newspaper=[[St. Petersburg Evening Independent]] |date=November 26, 1979 |page=11C |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |quote=The first Jewel T limited-line discount grocery store opened in the spring of 1977 and today there are approximately 80 in Florida, Georgia, Texas, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, and Tennessee.}}</ref> In the first month of 1980, Jewel T opened eight stores in highly competitive Southern California.<ref name=ct-1980jan04>{{cite news |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1980/01/04/page/42/article/jewel-theads-west-is-aldi-far-behind |title=Jewel T heads West; is Aldi far behind? |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=January 4, 1980 |page=c8 |last=Lazarus |first=George |quote=Jewel T, one of the big guys in the limited-assortment discount grocery business, will open eight stores Wednesday in the greater Los Angeles area. |id={{ProQuest|170071002}}}}</ref> In 1981, Jewel T opened stores in Atlanta<ref name=adw-1981aug27>{{cite news |title=Atlanta's First Full-Line Discount Grocery Store |newspaper=[[Atlanta Daily World]] |date=August 27, 1981 |page=12 |last=Brookins |first=Portia Scott |id={{ProQuest|491563781}}}}</ref> and its 150th store in Louisiana.<ref name=ll-1981sep19>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19810919&id=pWFNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UfsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4720,1091248&hl=en |title=High Interest |newspaper=[[Lakeland Ledger]] |date=September 19, 1981 |page=4B |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |quote=Jewel T Discount Groceries has opened its 150th store in LaGrange, La. The New Port Richey-based chain opened in 1977.}}</ref>

At its height in 1981, Jewel T operated 150 stores in 10 states located mainly in the Mid-Atlantic, South East, the Gulf Coast, the Deep South and Southern California. At the same time it encountered problems competing against the full service supermarkets which fought back by dropping prices, in some cases at or below costs, on the same limited items that Jewel T and other discount food stores specialized in stocking.<ref name=pi-1981aug26>{{cite news |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PHNP&p_theme=phnp&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB2933455303F50&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |title=Troubles Mount for No-frills Markets |newspaper=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |date=August 26, 1981 |page=E01 |first=Ewart |last=Rouse |url-access=subscription  |quote=Chicago-based Jewel Co. now operates 150 box stores in seven states, including Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, through its Jewel T. Discount division. ...What went wrong? Too much competition. If a big store cuts its prices in line with the box store, then the reason for the box store's existence disappears.}}</ref> Within a few years, the company began to sell unprofitable locations. By the beginning of 1984, approximately 131 locations remained.<ref name=wsj-1984mar27 />

In March 1984, the company closed all 21 Jewel T stores in Southern California.<ref name=wsj-1984mar27>{{cite news |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/134909001 |title=Jewel Closes 21 Stores In Southern California |newspaper=[[Wall Street Journal]] |date=March 27, 1984 |page=17 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |url-access=subscription  |quote=Jewel Cos. said it closed its 21 Jewel T discount grocery stores opened over the past four years in Southern California. The stores weren't profitable. The company said it would continue to operate 110 limited-service discount grocery stores in Texas, Florida and Philadelphia. |id={{ProQuest|134909001}}}}</ref> Seven of the leases and most of the inventory was sold to the [[99 Cents Only Stores]].<ref name=lat-1991nov28>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-28-fi-323-story.html |title=Not Small Change: 99 Cents Stores Thrive in Tough Times |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=November 28, 1991 |first=Kevin E. |last=Cullinane}}</ref>

A few months later, 105 stores remained when the chain was finally sold off in two separate transactions in June 1984, 28 stores in Texas were sold to a group of managers while the other 77 stores in Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey were sold to [[Save-A-Lot]].<ref name=os-1985aug08>{{cite news |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1985/08/08/super-warehouse-newest-food-store-trend/ |title=Super Warehouse -- Newest Food Store Trend |newspaper=[[Orlando Sentinel]] |date=August 8, 1985 |first=Dorothy |last=Chapman |quote=Jewel Ts are by industry standards not warehouse but limited assortment stores. A limited assortment store is bare-bones, low priced merchandising that reduces services and carries fewer than 1,000 items with few, if any, perishables. The average Jewel T in Florida has 8,000 square feet of marketable space compared to the average size of a typical 29,600-square foot supermarket. Canned and dry foods and non-perishables are available at Jewel Ts, and limited frozen meat sections will be introduced in early fall. There are no fresh produce or meat sections and freezer space is fractional. In early September the 27 Jewel T stores in Florida will be renamed Save-A-Lot Food Stores. Jewel T Discount Grocery stores in Florida and Philadelphia were acquired in August 1984 by St. Louis-based Moran Stores, Inc.}}</ref><ref name=pi-1984jul31>{{cite news |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PHNP&p_theme=phnp&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB297F774181793&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |title=Jewel-T Stores Are Sold Midwest Chain Buys Area Stores |newspaper=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |date=July 31, 1984 |page=C01 |edition=Final |first=Jennifer |last=Lin |url-access=subscription  |quote=Moran Stores Inc., operator of the Save-A-Lot chain in the Midwest, bought the Philadelphia area Jewel-T stores for an undisclosed sum. In addition, Moran Stores bought Jewel-T's Florida division, which has 44 outlets in northern Florida and Georgia. The sale of the Philadelphia and Florida stores will mark an end of Jewel's discount food division. The company sold its Jewel-T chain in Texas to an employee group last month. It also had closed outlets in California and the Atlanta area. The average Jewel-T outlet is only 9,000 square feet; an average supermarket measures 20,000 square feet. Inventory of a Jewel-T store is limited and heavily discounted. An outlet has about 1,000 products on its shelves, while a supermarket may have about 10 times that number.}} [http://docs.newsbank.com/s/InfoWeb/aggdocs/AWNB/0EB297F774181793/0D10997327EA07D5 Alternate Link] via [[NewsBank]].</ref>

===Republic Lumber===
Jewel Companies expanded into the hardware and home improvement business by acquiring Republic Lumber in 1972.<ref name=ct-1972sep13>{{cite news |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1972/09/13/page/85/article/business-ticker |title=Business Ticker |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=September 13, 1972 |page=c11 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |id={{ProQuest|169215081}}}}</ref> 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.<ref name=ct-1979feb02>{{cite news |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1979/02/02/page/53/article/jewel-sells-republic |title=Jewel sells Republic |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=February 2, 1979 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |page=D7 |id={{ProQuest|171889350}}}}</ref> 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.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}} A fifth location in Norridge was closed early in 1979 when the lease was not renewed, which later became a Joseph Lumber location.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}{{original research?|date=April 2022|reason=Claim not supported by existing refs}}