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===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>