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Showing posts with label Jewel-Osco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jewel-Osco. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Chicago’s Treasure Island; most of the Second City never had a clue about you

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We often hear odes to how sad it is to see businesses close – particularly if they’re not a part of some large corporate entity or if they i...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Same stuff; different label? Or are we destined to shop at Piggly Wiggly?

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I find it amusing the degree to which corporate interests own varieties of a product that might have the public think their competing with t...
Monday, August 3, 2015

What if we’re too lazy to change shopping habits by bringing own bags?

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I got my first look this weekend at those new plastic bags that supermarkets like Jewel will be encouraging people to use because they’re ...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

EXTRA: Jewel vs. Dominick’s – another great Chicago debate terminates

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Only the clocks remain from Field's. What will survive from Dominick's? Photograph by Gregory Tejeda Probably the biggest retai...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Losing the self-checkout not much of loss; it slowed things up too often

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Will this Jewel self-checkout device ... I happen to live within one block of a Jewel-Osco supermarket, although not one of the ones th...
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Gregory Tejeda
Chicago's far South Side, Illinois, United States
I am a Chicago-area freelance writer who has reported on various political and legal beats. I wrote "Hispanic" issues columns for United Press International, observed up close the Statehouse Scene in Springfield, Ill., the Cook County Board in Chicago and municipal government in places like Calumet City, Ill., and Gary, Ind. For a time, I also wrote about agriculture. Trust me when I say the symbolic stench of partisan politics (particularly when directed against people due to their ethnicity) is far nastier than any odor that could come from a farm animal.
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