Editing Jewel-Osco (section)

====1990s expansion under American Stores====
In 1989, American Stores expanded to [[Florida]] using the Jewel-Osco name, but operating as a separate division distinct from the Midwestern Jewel-Osco operations.<ref name="DrugNews">[http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3374/is_n7_v11/ai_9164448 Jewel Osco dazzles Tampa with sparkling new format], Drug Store News, April 3, 1989. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051001092642/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3374/is_n7_v11/ai_9164448 |date=October 1, 2005 }}</ref><ref name=sfss-1989nov06>{{cite news |url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1989-11-06/business/8902080603_1_american-superstores-publix-jewel-osco |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927232155/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1989-11-06/business/8902080603_1_american-superstores-publix-jewel-osco |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 27, 2015 |title=Benito Rebounds From Losing Publix Account |newspaper=[[Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel]] |date=November 6, 1989 |first=Elizabeth |last=Roberts}}</ref><ref name=spt-1989mar19>{{cite news |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/262656770 |title=What makes people love a superstore? |work=[[St. Petersburg Times]] |date=March 19, 1989 |page=1B |last=Sanders |first=Jacquin |url-access=subscription |id={{ProQuest|262656770}}}}</ref><ref name=spt-1989mar13>{{cite news |title=Glitzy store debuts in tight market // Jewel Osco testing prototype in bay area |work=[[St. Petersburg Times]] |date=March 13, 1989 |page=7 |last=Albright |first=Mark |id={{ProQuest|262647476}}}}</ref> The Jewel name returned to Florida five years after the company closed all of its Jewel-T discount food stores in 1984.  Florida was considered a good market for Jewel because of the high number of Chicagoans who had relocated to that state.{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}}  After three years of operations, American Stores closed those Jewel-Osco stores and sold them to Albertsons in 1992.<ref name=dn-1992jan29 />

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 toward the southwestern states.<ref name=to-1991aug28>{{cite news |url=http://newsok.com/article/2367178 |title=Skaggs Alpha Beta Set to Change Name |newspaper=[[The Oklahoman]] |date=August 28, 1991 |first=Jon |last=Denton}}</ref><ref name=aas-1991sep19>{{cite news |title=Today's digest: Skaggs now a Jewel |work=[[Austin American Statesman]] |date=September 19, 1991 |page=F1 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |quote=Skaggs Alpha Beta, a chain of 76 grocery and drug stores in the Southwest, has changed names to match subsidiaries of its parent company. Jewel Osco is now the name of the stores in Texas, Arkansas, New Mexico and Oklahoma. The Richardson-based chain is owned by American Stores Cos. of Salt Lake City, which also owns Jewel Food Stores and Osco Drug Stores. The name change will improve company efficiency by allowing it to use private label products from both Jewel and Osco, said Michael Miller, president of the Skaggs division that will now be called Jewel Southern. |id={{ProQuest|256182203}}}}</ref> Within six months, American Stores sold all of the Jewel-Osco locations in the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Florida to Albertsons<ref name=dn-1992jan29>{{cite news |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/206882/ALBERTSONS-TO-BUY-74-JEWEL-OSCO-STORES-IN-4-STATES.html?pg=all |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016083548/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/206882/ALBERTSONS-TO-BUY-74-JEWEL-OSCO-STORES-IN-4-STATES.html?pg=all |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 16, 2015 |title=Albertson's to Buy 74 Jewel-osco Stores In 4 States |newspaper=[[Deseret News]] |date=January 29, 1992 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |quote=Albertson's Inc. has agreed to buy 74 of American Stores Co.'s Jewel-Osco food and drug stores in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Florida, plus a merchandise warehouse in Ponca City, Okla.}}</ref><ref name=lat-1992jan29>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-01-29-fi-1044-story.html |title=Retailing |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=January 29, 1992 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->}}</ref> but kept the locations in the state of New Mexico for a few more years.

In 1998, American Stores rebranded the Jewel-Osco stores in New Mexico to Lucky/Sav-on, a grocery store/drug store brand which American Stores had used in neighboring Arizona.<ref name=aj-1998jun04>{{cite news |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AJ&p_theme=aj&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAC56B4B350E9DE&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |title=Jewel Osco, Osco Drug Now Sav-ons |newspaper=[[Albuquerque Journal]] |date=June 4, 1998 |page=D6 |first=Wende |last=Schwingendorf |url-access=subscription  |quote=Banners were taken down at Jewel Osco and Osco Drug stores all over the state Wednesday, unveiling the stores' new names -- Lucky/Sav-on and Sav-on, respective}}</ref> After the acquisition of American Stores by Albertsons just a few months later,<ref name=cnn-1998aug03 /> the New Mexico stores were rebranded again to Albertsons Sav-on in 1999.<ref name=aj-1999sep10>{{cite news |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AJ&p_theme=aj&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAC572F582EAC6F&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |title=Stores Get New Name |newspaper=[[Albuquerque Journal]] |date=September 10, 1999 |page=B4 |first=Aaron |last=Baca |url-access=subscription  |quote=The supermarket switch continues in Albuquerque as seven of the former Lucky Sav-on stores here have reopened this week under the new name of Albertsons Sav-on.}}</ref>

Under American Stores, Jewel returned to Wisconsin by opening a Jewel-Osco store in a new shopping center in [[Kenosha, Wisconsin]] in 1995.<ref name=ms-1994apr11>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19940411&id=SqsxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CBMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4098,2996222&hl=en |title=Jewel Considers Return To State At Kenosha Mall |newspaper=[[Milwaukee Sentinel]] |date=April 11, 1994 |pages=1D, 23D |first=Larry |last=Engel |quote=Jewel Companies Inc., which sold its supermarkets in Wisconsin and left the state in 1980, may soon return. ...could led to Jewel opening a combination Jewel Food Store and Osco Drug Store at a shopping center being developed in Kenosha. Jewel entered the Wisconsin supermarket scene in 1971 when it bought six Kroger stores in the Milwaukee area, and had plans to open as many as 20 stores. At one, time Jewel operated 13 supermarkets in the Milwaukee area. Jewel closed three of its 13 supermarkets in the spring of 1980 and that fall sold all 13 stores to the Godfrey Co., the Waukesha-based owner and operator of Sentry Food Stores.}}</ref> Jewel returned to Milwaukee in 1998 by purchasing a [[Pick 'n Save]] store and four [[Cub Foods]] stores and converting them into Jewel Osco stores.<ref name=mbj-1997jan12>{{cite news |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/1997/01/13/tidbits.html?page=all |title=Jewel scouting Milwaukee sites |work=[[Milwaukee Business Journal]] |date=January 12, 1997 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |quote=Jewel already has opened a grocery-drugstore in Kenosha, the first Jewel store in Wisconsin since 1978, when the grocery store chain closed its last seven stores and sold them to two area retailers.}}</ref><ref name=mbj-1998feb08>{{cite news |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/1998/02/09/story2.html |title=Jewel-Osco exploring central city supermarket |work=[[Milwaukee Business Journal]] |date=February 8, 1998 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |quote=Earlier this year, Jewel-Osco announced it was buying five Milwaukee-area stores: a Pick 'n Save store and four Cub Foods stores. The company earlier had identified five other metro Milwaukee sites on which it planned to develop new Jewel-Osco combination stores. In the 1970s, Jewel built a chain of 13 stores in metro Milwaukee, but closed the last of them in 1978. Back then, Jewel Foods and Osco Drugs weren't linked.}}</ref><ref name=ct-1998jan09>{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1998/01/09/jewel-osco-to-buy-more-cub-stores/ |title=Jewel-osco To Buy More Cub Stores |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=January 9, 1998 |first=George |last=Gunset}}</ref>