Editing Jewel-Osco (section)

===Eisner acquisition and expansion south===
In 1957, Jewel acquired the [[Champaign]]-based '''[[Eisner Food Stores]]''', located in [[downstate Illinois]] and later in west central Indiana ([[Lafayette, Indiana|Lafayette]], [[West Lafayette, Indiana|West Lafayette]], and [[Bloomington, Indiana|Bloomington]]).<ref name=wsj-1957mar14>{{cite news |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/132356920 |title=Jewel Tea Acquires Eisner |newspaper=[[Wall Street Journal]] |date=March 14, 1957 |page=4 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |url-access=subscription |id={{ProQuest|132356920}}}}</ref> 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<ref name=bht-1985may08>{{cite news |title=Eisners have a new name and new look |newspaper=[[Bloomington Herald-Times|Bloomington Herald-Telephone]] |date=May 8, 1985 |page=19 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> }}</ref><ref name=ljc-2015jun29>{{cite news |url=http://www.jconline.com/picture-gallery/news/history/2015/06/28/from-the-jc-archives-june-29-2015/29442157/ |title=From the J&C Archives: June 29, 2015 |newspaper=[[Lafayette Journal & Courier]] |date=June 29, 2015 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |at=19th (last) picture in image gallery}}</ref> 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.<ref name=sn-1986october27>{{cite news |url=http://business.highbeam.com/4524/article-1G1-4479579/gateway-replace-jewel-eisner-supplier |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904053027/http://business.highbeam.com/4524/article-1G1-4479579/gateway-replace-jewel-eisner-supplier |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 4, 2015 |title=Gateway will replace Jewel as Eisner supplier. |work=Supermarket News |date=October 27, 1986 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |via=[[Highbeam Research]] |url-access=subscription }}</ref> 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, justifying the elimination of those locations. The west central Indiana stores, three in Lafayette and two in Bloomington, were sold off in 1990.<ref name=bht-1989dec27>{{cite news |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=HTBIN&p_theme=htbin&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=144EAB1B363A4748&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |title=Jewel plans to close Bloomington stores |newspaper=[[Bloomington Herald-Times]] |date=December 27, 1989 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |url-access=subscription }}</ref> Jewel also closed central Illinois locations that were formerly Eisner in Decatur (in 1995),<ref name=hr-1995jan08>{{cite news |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DH&p_theme=dh&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=104066BF5853740A&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |title=Jewel to close 2 stores - Osco Drug Stores will remain open |newspaper=[[Herald & Review]] |date=January 8, 1995 |page=A1 |first=Ted |last=Kleine |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Champaign-Urbana (in 1998),<ref name=tngcu-1998apr06>{{cite news |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CNGB&p_theme=cngb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FABA2B1C208B9F4&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |title=Jewel will close down two C-U stores after April 18 |newspaper=[[The News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana)]] |date=April 6, 1998 |first=Anne |last=Cook |url-access=subscription}}</ref> and Springfield (2006).<ref name=ssjr-2006jul21>{{cite news |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=JR&p_theme=jr&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1131561959334B40&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |title=Local Jewels to close, reopen / Unidentified new owners plan month of renovations |newspaper=[[Springfield State Journal-Register]] |date=July 21, 2006 |page=1 |first=Tim |last=Landis |url-access=subscription  |quote=The two Jewel-Osco stores in Springfield are expected to close by early fall, apparently for renovation and new ownership.}}</ref>