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80-557: Giant Eagle, Inc. ( Western Pennsylvania English : / ˈ dʒ aɪ n . ɪ ɡ əl / ) is an American supermarket chain with stores in Pennsylvania , Ohio , West Virginia , Indiana , and Maryland . The company was founded in 1918 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania, and incorporated on August 31, 1931. Supermarket News ranked Giant Eagle 21st on the "Top 75 North American Food Retailers" based on sales of $ 11 billion. In 2021, it

160-779: A café with prepared sandwiches, Giant Eagle's own Market District coffee, salad bar, and a wireless internet connection. There is also a GetGo gas station. On June 4, 2024, Giant Eagle announced new Market District Express concept, which is designed to be a hybrid of the flagship Market District format launched in 2023 with the Giant Eagle Express format that was launched in 2022. The first of this brand's stores opened on December 5, 2013, in Peters Township, Pennsylvania . The second Market District Express store opened on August 18, 2016, in Bexley, Ohio . The Bexley location

240-570: A GetGo Kitchen. Although older Giant Eagle locations tend to be unionized and some are even franchised stores, in recent years the company has started leaning toward non-union company-owned and operated stores. In areas where a franchised store exists, if a GetGo exists nearby, it's operated by Giant Eagle itself, separate from the franchised supermarket. Giant Eagle rebranded some of its stores as Market District in an attempt to attract upscale shoppers. The initial two stores opened in June 2006 in

320-716: A broad number of stores", Giant Eagle chose to close its Optical locations beginning in August 2009. In December 2008, Giant Eagle opened the rebranded Valu King supermarket in Eastlake, Ohio. The Valu King name dates back to the 1980s. The rebranded Valu King operated stores in Eastlake , Ravenna , and Brooklyn in Ohio and Johnstown and Erie in Pennsylvania , with the most recent store opened in May 2012. In 2012, Giant Eagle opened

400-648: A contrastive THOUGHT vowel instead: [no̞ːʔt] , which falls together with [ ɒ ] in Pittsburgh). Earlier reports give [ ɜ ] as the norm for STRUT in Pittsburgh. The remaining checked vowels /ɪ/ , /ʊ/ , /ɛ/ and /æ/ are all within the General American norm. The GOAT vowel often has an unrounded central or fronted starting point in Pittsburgh: [əʊ] . Outside of

480-419: A description of the dialect, whose author Bruce Lee Johnson notes that the auxiliary verb might is typically pronounced with nasalization, as [mɜ̃ɪ̃ʔt] . Elsewhere in the article, this allophone is transcribed ⟨ ʌɪ ⟩, following its usual transcription on Misplaced Pages. The MOUTH vowel typically begins front in the mouth [æʊ] . A less common variant has a central starting point, [äʊ] , matching

560-693: A general-merchandise department store and later a large retail and wholesale supermarket company. In 1922, it established Johnstown's first radio station, WTAC , which was licensed until early 1926. Riverside, founded in Brookville, Pennsylvania , in 1928, became part of the Penn Traffic family in 1962, and began developing the Bi-Lo format in the 1980s, unrelated to the chain in the Mid-Atlantic. Penn Traffic operated 43 supermarkets under

640-630: A holding company named International Seaway Foods as the main umbrella for Rini-Rego Stop-n-Shop. In 1998, Giant Eagle acquired the International Seaway Foods and converted the Rini-Rego Stop-n-Shop stores into Giant Eagle Stores. Giant Eagle also purchased or opened other Northeast Ohio stores outside the Stop-n-Shop area, such as the former Apples supermarkets in the nearby Akron area. The company entered

720-558: A new low-cost supermarket concept called Good Cents, located in Ross Township, Pennsylvania . The concept is similar to that of a Valu King, but carries a slightly larger product selection. Good Cents eventually replaced all rebranded Valu King as Giant Eagle's low-cost brand. Good Cents and Valu King both were no frills stores designed to compete with similar stores such as Aldi , Save-A-Lot , and Bottom Dollar Food . On February 25, 2015, Giant Eagle announced it would close all

800-518: A presence in the area. The construction of new supercenters, including Walmart and others, and no frills supermarkets such as Aldi attracting value-seeking customers have somewhat decreased Giant Eagle's regional market share in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Giant Eagle's market dominance in Greater Pittsburgh has led to accusations of the company buying up either existing supermarket locations or prime real estate for

880-575: A rounded /ɒ/ (phonetically [ ɒ ~ ɔ ] ). As in most other American dialects, the father–bother merger also occurs. Therefore, cot and caught are both pronounced /kɒt/ ; Don and dawn are both /dɒn/ . While the merger of the low back vowels is also widespread elsewhere in the United States, the rounded realizations of the merged vowel around [ɒ] is less common, except in Canada , California and Northeastern New England . /ɒ/ has

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960-540: A standalone Ace Hardware store. All locations have dedicated team members to the hardware store, paint mixing services, and a wide variety of hardware products. All six stores are located in the Pittsburgh market. The latest store with Ace Hardware opened in Rochester, Pennsylvania , in the spring of 2022. Giant Eagle was the largest shareholder of the Phar-Mor chain during its heyday in the 1980s and 1990s, although it

1040-1603: A store in Somerset, Pennsylvania , a new store in Johnstown, Pennsylvania , and its first Maryland stores: one in Cumberland , one in Hagerstown , and two in Frederick . The Cumberland store closed in December 2003, and the Hagerstown store closed in August 2005. Giant Eagle has aggressively expanded its footprint in the Greater Columbus area, capitalizing on the demise of the former Big Bear supermarket chain, and taking Big Bear's traditional place as Columbus's upmarket grocer. Giant Eagle first entered what it calls its "Columbus Region" in late 2000, opening three large newly built stores at Sawmill and Bethel Rd., Lewis Center, and Dublin-Granville Rd., with two more following in 2002 and 2003 at Gahanna and Hilliard-Rome Rd. The Hilliard-Rome Rd. location closed in early 2017. In 2004, Giant Eagle purchased nine former Big Bear stores in Columbus, Newark, and Marietta from parent company Penn Traffic . Giant Eagle has since expanded to several additional locations, acquiring other abandoned Big Bear stores and in newly constructed buildings using

1120-416: A stylistic variant, which is open central unrounded [ ä ] , as in the sarcastic pronunciation of I apologize as [aɪ əˈpʰäɫɨdʒaɪz] . It may also occur before /r/ , as in start [stäɹʔt] or car [kʰäɹ] , but a more common pronunciation is back and rounded: [stɒɹʔt] etc. The vowel in hoarse is the same as the one in horse , phonetically [ ɔ ] : [hɔɹs] but phonemically /oʊ/ due to

1200-405: A subregion between western and eastern Pennsylvania, but some scholars in the 20th century onwards have identified it within the western Pennsylvania dialect region. Since Kurath's study, one of western Pennsylvania's defining features, the cot–caught merger , has expanded into central Pennsylvania, moving eastward until being blocked at Harrisburg . Perhaps the only feature whose distribution

1280-939: A survey by The Columbus Dispatch . Hawkins resigned before the first bankruptcy filing, March 1, 1999. In the late 1990s, Penn Traffic experienced a significant reduction in its profitability because of several merchandising and operational changes that had a negative impact on its business. By late 1998, the company realized that while it had strong consumer franchises, it was working under an untenable debt burden. To address this challenge, in early 1999 Penn Traffic negotiated an agreement with bondholders to restructure more than $ 1.1 billion in bond debt. In 1998, Penn Traffic sold its dairy operations, Sani-Dairy in Johnstown, Pennsylvania , to Dean Foods. The dairy provided fluid milk, sour cream, ice cream, novelties, and cottage cheese to Penn Traffic stores and to private label customers. Penn Traffic completed its financial restructuring in June 1999 with more than 75% of its debt retired. In 2003,

1360-638: A team of professional liquidators for all of P&C's assets and $ 85 million from Tops Markets for all of Penn Traffic's stores. On January 25, 2010, Tops Markets ' bid was signed off by a federal judge in U.S. Bankruptcy Court and was awarded the sale of all 79 Penn Traffic stores. Closing occurred on Jan 29, 2010. The amount of the sale will be slightly more than the previously agreed upon price of $ 85 million cash and assumption of approximately $ 70 million of Penn Traffic's debt. The BiLo name survives in Pennsylvania , though three former locations have since converted to Tops. The P&C name (P&C Fresh)

1440-469: Is a concept store. As of May 2016, the only operating store is in Harmar Township, Pennsylvania . An Indiana, Pennsylvania location closed its doors in 2015. The store is larger than a GetGo, but much smaller than a regular Giant Eagle supermarket store. However, the store offers many of the same services as a Giant Eagle, such as a deli and a drive-through pharmacy. Giant Eagle Express also offers

1520-575: Is also common in African-American English . The word mirror can be pronounced as the single-syllable mere . Western Pennsylvania English speakers may use falling intonation at the end of questions, for example, in "Are you painting your garage?" [↗ˈɒɹ jə ˈpʰeɪɾ̃ɪŋ jɚ ɡə↘ˈɹɒdʒ] (with pitch rising in intonation up to just before the last syllable and then falling precipitously). Such speakers typically use falling pitch for yes–no questions for which they already are quite sure of

1600-762: Is confined to the environment of a following nasal, matching the GenAm allophony. An epenthetic (intruding) /r/ sound may occur after vowels in a few words, such as water pronounced as [ˈwɔɹɾɚ] , and wash as [wɔɹʃ] . A number of vowel mergers occur uniquely in Western Pennsylvania English before the consonant /l/ . The pair of vowels /i/ and /ɪ/ may merge before the /l/ consonant, cause both steel and still to be pronounced as something like [stɪɫ] . Similarly, /u/ , /oʊ/ , and /ʊ/ may merge before /l/ , so that pool , pull , and pole may merge to something like [pʰʊɫ] . On

1680-558: Is consistently found only in western Pennsylvania. The /i/~/ɪ/ merger towards [ɪ] may also appear before /ɡ/ : eagle then sounds to outsiders like iggle . L -vocalization is also common in the Western Pennsylvania dialect; an /l/ then sounds like a /w/ or a cross between a vowel and a "dark" /l/ at the end of a syllable. For example, well is pronounced as [wɛw] ; milk as [mɪwk] or [mɛwk] ; role as [ɹʊw] ; and cold as [ˈkʰʊwd] . The phenomenon

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1760-421: Is notable as it features a full restaurant and bar inside, alongside groceries in a 30,000 square foot store that spans three floors. GetGo is a convenience store chain that also has gas stations. Giant Eagle began adding pharmacies to their stores in the 1980s, along with other " store-within-a-store " concepts photo, floral, and video rental. Giant Eagle Pharmacy also offers several immunizations throughout

1840-583: Is one of the few features, if not the only one, restricted almost exclusively to western Pennsylvania in North America, but it can sometimes be found in other accents of the English-speaking world, such as Cockney and South African English . The sound may be the result of contact from Slavic languages during the early 20th century. Monophthongization also occurs for the sound /aɪ/ , as in eye , before liquid consonants, so that tile

1920-572: Is pronounced [tʰɑːɫ] ; pile is pronounced [pʰɑːɫ] ; and iron is pronounced [ɑːɹn] . That phenomenon allows tire to merge with the sound of tar : [tʰɑːɹ] . The NURSE vowel (phonemically an /ər/ sequence) is phonetically close-mid [ ɘ˞ ] . Johnson notes a tendency to diphthongize /æ/ to [ɛə] not only before nasals (as in GenAm) but also before all voiced consonants (as in bad [bɛəd] ) and voiceless fricatives (as in grass [ɡɹɛəs] ). This has since been reversed and now [ɛə]

2000-437: Is restricted almost exclusively to the immediate vicinity of Pittsburgh is /aʊ/ monophthongization in which words such as house , down , found , and sauerkraut are sometimes pronounced with an "ah" sound, instead of the more standard pronunciation of "ow", rendering eye spellings such as hahs , dahn , fahnd , and sahrkraht . Speakers of Pittsburgh English are sometimes called "Yinzers" in reference to their use of

2080-417: The /il/~/ɪl/ merger, Labov, Ash and Boberg (2006) note "the stereotype of merger of /ɪl ~ il/ is based only on a close approximation of some forms, and does not represent the underlying norms of the dialect." The /i/~/ɪ/ merger is found in western Pennsylvania, as well as parts of the southern United States, including Alabama, Texas and the west (McElhinny 1999). On the other hand, the /u/~/ʊ/ merger

2160-537: The 1977 flood . The company sold its six department stores and two women's specialty-store leases to Crown American Corporation, owner of the Hess's department store chain, in 1982 in order to concentrate on the supermarket business. Miller, Tabak, Hirsch & Company, a New York City -based investment group, began its takeover bid for Penn Traffic in 1986. Early takeover attempts were resisted by management but by 1987, Penn Traffic agreed to an offer by an affiliate of

2240-707: The GetGo banner, and three standalone car wash under the WetGo banner. The company is headquartered in an office park in Cranberry Township, PA in Butler County . After World War I , three Pittsburgh-area families—the Goldsteins, Porters, and Chaits—built a grocery chain called Eagle Grocery. In 1928, Eagle, which at the time had 125 stores, merged with Kroger . The three families agreed to stay out of

2320-582: The Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh and Bethel Park , just outside Pittsburgh. There are now 20 stores under this brand. The 20th store is now open in the Pittsburgh suburb of Murrysville, Pennsylvania . That store is a result of Giant Eagle closing their existing Murrysville location in July 2022 for five months to do extensive renovations. They have just finished converting a store on Rt 3, Westerville (a suburb of Columbus) to this name. Giant Eagle Express

2400-653: The Toledo market, opening two stores in 2001 and 2004, both of which eventually closed. Giant Eagle emerged as one of the dominant supermarket chains in Northeast Ohio, competing mainly against the New York-based Tops , from which it purchased 18 stores in October 2006. The purchases came as Tops exited the Northeast Ohio area. Giant Eagle purchased independently owned County Market stores, giving it

2480-547: The 1980s, its Big Bear Plus stores combined a supermarket with a general merchandise store. Penn Traffic operated 70 Big Bear and Big Bear Plus stores in Ohio and West Virginia until early 2004. As a result of Penn Traffic's 2003 bankruptcy filing, these stores were either closed or sold to other companies, such as grocery retailer Giant Eagle , while other properties were left vacant and still remain vacant. The Columbus, Ohio warehouses operated by Big Bear were also left vacant and subsequently torn down for redevelopment. In

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2560-728: The 1980s, when it bought Youngstown, Ohio -based wholesaler Tamarkin Company, and its Valu-King stores that were converted to the Giant Eagle name. The Kent and Ravenna stores were the first to be converted at that time; the Youngstown stores then got converted years later. Around the mid- or late 1990s, Giant Eagle later reached Cleveland by acquiring the Rini-Rego Stop-n-Shop stores in the area. Rini-Rego Stop-n-Shop stores were family owned and operated in different areas of Cleveland. The family operators of Rini-Rego Stop-n-Shop formed

2640-536: The Advantage Card, an electronic loyalty card discount system (already popular in many chains), as a sophisticated version of the obsolete stamp programs. The card was later modified to double as a video rental card for Iggle Video. The company began the Fuelperks! program, allowing customers the opportunity to earn 10 cents off each gallon of gas at GetGo fuel stations. In early 2009, Giant Eagle launched

2720-686: The Bi-Lo trade name across Pennsylvania, and also distributed food to 51 franchised and independent supermarkets from its DuBois, Pennsylvania , distribution facility. Quality Markets, founded in Jamestown, New York , in 1913, joined the Penn Traffic family in 1979. Penn Traffic operated a total of 34 supermarkets under the Quality trade name in southwestern New York and northwestern Pennsylvania. Penn Traffic's flagship department store in Johnstown, challenged by economic decline, permanently closed after

2800-595: The Chapter 11 filing, Robert Chapman was named the new CEO of Penn Traffic. Penn Traffic was named to the S&;P 500 in March 2003 only to have a scandal later that year negatively effect all of Fischer diligence. In 2007, two former Penn Traffic executives were indicted on fraud charges. In early 2008, Penn Traffic closed its private bakery, Penny Curtiss, citing the loss of the local Aldi stores contract in August 2007 as

2880-563: The Columbus market, prices did not uniformly drop and competitors, including Kroger and Meijer regularly beat Big Bear in third party cost comparisons. Meanwhile, better capitalized competitors, including Wegmans and Kroger, cut into market share. Same store sales fell 8.2% in fiscal 1998, while operating income declined another 6%, to $ 165 million ($ 288 million in 2023). In Columbus, where Kroger and Big Bear had once been neck and neck, Big Bear's market share dropped to 20% from 25%, while Kroger's rose to 54% from 44% in 1998, according to

2960-774: The Flashfood app, Coinstar , grocery pickup and delivery, and pharmacies. Giant Eagle also has banking partnerships with Citizens Bank in Pennsylvania and Huntington Bank in Ohio and West Virginia. The chain has built large prototypes, and it has experimented with many departments unusual to supermarkets. Larger stores feature vast selections of ethnic and organic food, dry cleaning services, catering, drive-thru pharmacies, in-store banking, as well as in-store coffee shops, pubs, restaurants, and prepared foods. Prepared foods are also sold at larger GetGo locations that can accommodate

3040-1044: The Foodperks! program, mainly geared towards GetGo, allowing customers who use their Fuelperks! at GetGo to also save on groceries at Giant Eagle. In February 2013, Giant Eagle discontinued the Foodperks! program because it was "a little too complex". In 2017, Giant Eagle changed Fuelperks! to Fuelperks+ and reintroduced the benefits of Foodperks!. Under the new program, among other benefits, customers earned points by shopping at Giant Eagle, Market District, or GetGo stores and by filling prescriptions at Giant Eagle Pharmacies. These points could be redeemed to save on groceries and gas. In late 2021, Giant Eagle began to roll out another new system, myPerks and myPerks Pro, which allows customers to take advantage of exclusive sale prices and earn bonus points. Switching from Fuelperks+ to myPerks became an option for all customers in 2022. Giant Eagle retired its longtime Fuelperks+ program on January 25, 2024. All existing Fuelperks+ customers were merged into

3120-506: The Giant Eagle branded items, which are priced lower than national brands, yet higher than Valu Time. Before these brands existed, Giant Eagle generally used Topco's Food Club label as the generic product. Until 2022, Giant Eagle had the highest market share of any supermarket chain in the Pittsburgh area, giving it a de facto monopoly in some parts of western Pennsylvania; only stores supplied by United Natural Foods (UNFI) such as Shop 'n Save , FoodLand , and County Market have much of

3200-557: The Good Cents stores by the end of March. It was looking for open spots at nearby Giant Eagle locations for displaced employees. On March 2, 2015, all Good Cents stores were sold and closed. Giant Eagle has about 32,000 employees and many of them are unionized under United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1776ks of Pittsburgh, AFGE and UFCW Local 880 of Cleveland . The Maryland and Columbus stores are not unionized, much like some independently owned stores throughout Pennsylvania and

3280-458: The Insalaco's, Bi-Lo/Riverside/U-Save, P&C and Quality trade names. The company also operated a wholesale food distribution business, purchased in 2008 by C&S Wholesale Grocers , which served approximately 121 independent operators. Penn Traffic traces its origins back to the 1850s, when it was a trading post in Johnstown, Pennsylvania . Over the years, Penn Traffic evolved first into

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3360-416: The Pittsburgh area: North Hills (McIntyre Square), South Hills (Donaldson's Crossroads), east (Monroeville), and west (Robinson). The stores accepted most major vision plans and offered a wide variety of designer frames, as well as exclusive Giant Eagle brands. They also participated in the Fuelperks! program and were staffed mostly by ABO-certified opticians. Noting that "some programs don't prove viable across

3440-410: The Pittsburgh city limits while GetGo has, although both competitor chains have several locations within the immediate suburbs; 7-Eleven 's 2021 acquisition of Speedway made the issue partially moot as 7-Eleven has operated multiple locations within the Pittsburgh city limits for decades, though Sheetz remains "locked out" by GetGo. Giant Eagle was also successful in blocking a Walmart location opening at

3520-728: The Producers and Consumers food cooperative in Ithaca, New York , as a way for farmers in Upstate New York to get their products to market efficiently. Until 2010, Penn Traffic operated 70 P&C supermarkets serving the Syracuse metropolitan area and other communities in Upstate New York, Vermont , New Hampshire , and Pennsylvania . P&C was also a major wholesaler in upstate New York; from its Syracuse warehouse,

3600-542: The Youngstown, Ohio area. Some employees in the Eagle's Nest and Photo Lab departments are also nonunion employees. Giant Eagle currently uses the slogan "That's Another Giant Eagle Advantage" with its advertising, focusing on the eAdvantage offer of the week. This campaign features store employees and customers, that put their own spin on what Giant Eagle offers. The campaign includes a focus on product selection, quality, customer service, and price leadership. From 2011 to 2014

3680-447: The answer. A speaker uttering the above example is simply confirming what is already thought: yes, the person spoken to is painting their garage. It is most common in areas of heavy German settlement, especially southeastern Pennsylvania, hence its nickname, the "Pennsylvania Dutch question", but it is also found elsewhere in Pennsylvania, including Pittsburgh. It is of German origin. Penn Traffic The Penn Traffic Company

3760-436: The area all provided certain loanwords to the dialect (see "Vocabulary" below). Many of the sounds and words found in the dialect are popularly thought to be unique to Pittsburgh, but that is a misconception since the dialect resides throughout the greater part of western Pennsylvania and the surrounding areas. Central Pennsylvania, currently an intersection of several dialect regions, was identified in 1949 by Hans Kurath as

3840-484: The chain liquidated. Giant Eagle once operated Iggle Video locations inside many of its locations to serve as its video rental shop . Like Giant Eagle Pharmacy, Iggle Video (which spelled "eagle" from its phonetic pronunciation in Pittsburghese , even outside of Pittsburgh) never operated in stand-alone locations. Like other video rental chains, Iggle Video offered movie and video game rentals. They also served as

3920-589: The city itself, [oʊ] is more common. GOOSE is sometimes also fronted, to [ɨu] (more usual value: [ʊu] ). As in other American dialects, FLEECE and FACE are narrow diphthongs [ɪi, ee̝] . CHOICE is also within GenAm norm: [ɔ̟ɪ] . The PRICE vowel alone undergoes Canadian raising to [ɜɪ] before voiceless consonants, as in ice [ɜɪs] . In 1971, the Journal of the International Phonetic Association published

4000-512: The company filed for bankruptcy again, this time resulting in the loss of Big Bear, one of their largest grocery chains. Fischer resigned one month into the second Chapter 11 filing , and was replaced by Steven G. Panagos, a corporate turnaround specialist. Panagos sold the Big Bear division, shuttered unprofitable stores, cut overhead and gave the underfunded pension plan back to the PBGC. Following

4080-487: The company parted ways with Laura Shapira Karet who was both chairman of the board and CEO. Bart Friedman was appointed chairman. This marked the first time in the company's history when the chairman was not a member of one of the five founding families. In addition, Bill Artman was appointed CEO, which marks the first time the position was not held by a member of the Shapira family since 1968. In 1991, Giant Eagle introduced

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4160-566: The company served 99 independent supermarkets in central New York, the majority of which still operate under the Big M franchise trade name. In 1997, a new ballpark for the Syracuse Chiefs opened. Penn Traffic owned the naming rights for nine baseball seasons of P & C Stadium . The last P&C Foods branded grocery store closed on January 21, 2012 in Bath, New York , when the building

4240-468: The convenience focus used in the previous campaign. From 1993 until 2001, "it takes a giant to make life simple" was used as the slogan. This was focused on convenience, and spawned the "Fee Fi Fo Fum" commercials. The commercials featured everything from the general store, the produce and deli departments to a spot featuring Jay Bell and Jeff King of the Pittsburgh Pirates . This replaced

4320-577: The cot-caught merger: /hoʊrs/ . /ʌ/ is backer and more open than [ ɜ ] found in Midland American English , being closer to [ ɑ ] . This makes STRUT an unrounded counterpart of LOT , with pairs such as nut [nɑʔt] vs. not [nɒʔt] or cut [kʰɑʔt] vs. cot [kʰɒʔt] contrasting mainly by roundedness . This is also found in contemporary Standard Southern British English, where nut [nʌʔt] also differs from not [nɔʔt] by rounding (though nought has

4400-644: The current Giant Eagle prototype. Giant Eagle opened its 20th Columbus-area store at New Albany Road at the Ohio Rt. 161 freeway ( New Albany ) in August 2007, its 21st area store at Hayden Run and Cosgray Roads ( Dublin ) in November 2007, its 22nd area store at Stelzer and McCutcheon Roads (Columbus) in July 2008 and its 23rd area store at South Hamilton Road and Winchester Pike (Groveport) in August 2008. A new Giant Eagle opened in Lancaster , in November 2008, and

4480-453: The dilapidated Northern Lights Shopping Center in Economy, Pennsylvania , though Walmart eventually opened a location on the hillside behind the property in 2014 after finding a loophole around Giant Eagle's lease at Northern Lights; Giant Eagle ultimately closed this location on January 2, 2021. Before Walmart, Giant Eagle's last nationally-significant competitor in the Pittsburgh market

4560-524: The early 2000s with Giant Eagle's current prototype. Kroger and Giant Eagle still compete head-to-head in Morgantown , Columbus and Indianapolis . Despite the perceived monopoly, Giant Eagle holds only a 32% market share in Pittsburgh as of August 2018, just barely edging out Walmart. In 2022, Giant Eagle fell behind Walmart. Western Pennsylvania English Scots-Irish , Pennsylvania Dutch , Polish , Ukrainian and Croatian immigrants to

4640-504: The early and middle 1990s, Penn Traffic continued to grow as it acquired and built other supermarkets in and near its primary markets. During this time, Penn Traffic entered the Buffalo, New York and Erie, Pennsylvania markets with the Quality trade name and made substantial investments to enhance its store base and distribution network, while maintaining steady growth in cash flow and profitability. In 1997, Hirsch hired Phil Hawkins, who

4720-420: The existing Giant Eagle location in the area, allowing for the property to be redeveloped. The location opened in a former Lawson's , and assumed the prescription accounts from the previous location. Giant Eagle partnered with Arlington Lens Supply in 2010 to sell contact lenses online via their website. Ricker's was a 56-store, Indiana-based convenience store and gas station chain. In September of 2018, it

4800-662: The food and supermarket business. A series of financial troubles led to Penn Traffic's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in November 2009, and sale of assets to Tops Markets in early 2010. At the time of sale, Penn Traffic was the parent company for 79 retail supermarkets in the Northeastern United States , concentrating mostly in Central New York . Its headquarters were in Syracuse, New York . Penn Traffic formerly had operated supermarkets in Pennsylvania , Vermont , and New Hampshire under

4880-758: The former Big Bear located at Blacklick Crossing has undergone an expansion and remodeling. On September 27, 2018, Giant Eagle announced it would purchase the Ricker's convenience store chain in Indiana, marking the largest acquisition for GetGo since the chain's launch. It is not known if the Ricker's chain will be integrated into the GetGo brand following the closure of the deal. Much as it has done in Pennsylvania alongside Sheetz , GetGo plans to join Ricker's in having Indiana change their laws regarding alcohol sales. In 2023,

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4960-446: The grocery business for at least three years. Meanwhile, the Moravitz and Weizenbaum families built their own successful chain of grocery stores named OK Grocery. In 1931, OK Grocery merged with Eagle Grocery to form Giant Eagle, which was incorporated two years later. Giant Eagle quickly expanded across western Pennsylvania, weathering the Great Depression and World War II. The chain remained based solely in western Pennsylvania until

5040-405: The highest loss ever for the company, missed loan payments, and slower shipments from suppliers. The company initially intended to sell all of its assets by the end of 2009 and close on the deal or deals by the early January 2010. As of January 9, 2010, Penn Traffic was entertaining three separate bids: $ 54 million from Price Chopper for 22 P&C Foods stores, a private bid of $ 36.5 million from

5120-473: The investment firm and the company was briefly taken private for $ 131 million (~$ 301 million in 2023). In 1988, under then-chairman Gary Hirsch, Penn Traffic began an acquisition program. Hirsch first took Penn Traffic public, raising $ 25 million, and then added Syracuse-based P&C Food Markets for $ 219 million. In 1989, Penn Traffic acquired Ohio chain Big Bear Stores for $ 341 million (~$ 729 million in 2023). P&C Foods began in 1944 as

5200-466: The local Ticketmaster outlet in the Pittsburgh region before Ticketmaster phased out physical ticket locations outside venue box offices. In the mid- to late 2000s, Giant Eagle phased these stores out in favor of Redbox automated retail machines, with Ticketmaster sales moved to the customer service desk. In October 2004, Giant Eagle began a long-term experiment with in-store optometry centers dubbed "Giant Eagle Optical". There were four locations in

5280-624: The new myPerks program. There are 211 Giant Eagle Supermarkets and 274 GetGo locations in the United States: 103 supermarkets in western Pennsylvania , 111 in northeastern and central Ohio , two in Morgantown , West Virginia , two in Frederick , Maryland and one in Carmel , Indiana . Each store carries between 22,000 and 60,000 items, approximately 5,000 of which are branded by Giant Eagle. Giant Eagle offers more than two dozen departments across its stores. The range of services includes Redbox video terminals, Happy Returns , dry cleaning, Bissell carpet cleaner rental, Primo Water , lottery ,

5360-402: The previous "A lot you can feel good about   ... especially the price" motto. The chain, under pressure from Wal-Mart , has implemented a lower-prices campaign throughout its stores, featured on products that customers buy most. Giant Eagle also sells Topco -produced Valu Time products, which are substantially cheaper than other private-label and name-brand merchandise. These co-exist with

5440-420: The primary reason for the bakery's closing. The company said the bakery was contributing less than 4% of Penn Traffic's total annual revenue. In December 2008, Penn Traffic entered into a definitive agreement to sell its wholesale business segment to C&S Wholesale Grocers Inc. On November 18, 2009, Penn Traffic filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection following second-quarter 2009 losses of $ 7 million,

5520-453: The second-person plural pronoun " yinz ." The word "yinzer" is sometimes heard as pejorative, indicating a lack of sophistication, but the term is now used in a variety of ways. Older men are more likely to use the accent than women "possibly because of a stronger interest in displaying local identity...." A defining feature of Western Pennsylvania English is the cot–caught merger , in which /ɑ/ (as in ah ) and /ɔ/ (as in aw ) merge to

5600-404: The slogan was "That's my Giant Eagle Advantage". From 2009 until 2011, the slogan was "Low prices. Uncompromising quality." In December 2009, a variation being used was "Lower prices. Uncompromising quality." for online advertisements on thepittsburghchannel.com website. From 2001 until 2009, the slogan "Make every day taste better", was used. It was meant to showcase product quality as compared to

5680-527: The sole purpose of not allowing a competitor come in. A notable example came in 2016, when the chain purchased property in McCandless, Pennsylvania , that had been planned for a Walmart location near an existing Giant Eagle; Walmart later backed out and Giant Eagle made no immediate announcement of plans for the property. The deal came only weeks after Giant Eagle laid off 350 workers from its corporate office. Similar accusations have been made about GetGo not allowing Sheetz or Speedway opening up locations within

5760-439: The starting point of PRICE ( [äɪ] ). It is monophthongized to [aː] in some environments (sounding instead like ah ), namely: before nasal consonants ( downtown [daːnˈtʰaːn] and found [faːnd] ), liquid consonants ( fowl , hour ) and obstruents ( house [haːs] , out , cloudy ). The monophthongization does not occur, however, in word-final positions ( how , now ), and the diphthong then remains [æʊ] . That

5840-406: The year for pneumonia , influenza , and Shingrix . These are typically walk-in, but vary depending on the pharmacists available. Until 2021, all Giant Eagle Pharmacy locations were located inside standard Giant Eagle and Market District locations. This changed when a standalone Giant Eagle Pharmacy opened in Columbus's German Village neighborhood after Giant Eagle opted not to renew its lease at

5920-422: Was Kroger , which had bought the original Eagle but exited Western Pennsylvania in 1984 due to labor issues with its union as well as the local economy at the time. Many Giant Eagle locations in Pennsylvania and Northeast Ohio occupy former Kroger sites and used the distinctive Kroger prototypes from the 1980s with the sloped glass-roof entrance until most of the stores were remodeled or replaced with newer stores in

6000-399: Was a food service company founded in 1854 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania . The company eventually evolved into a general merchandise department store. By the early 1960s, it also returned to the food business through the acquisition of Super Value Corporation, which operated the 10-store Riverside supermarket chain. In 1982, the company sold its department stores and concentrated solely on

6080-575: Was credited with saving the Vons supermarket chain in California . Hawkins cut costs and fired 325 employees, including all five division heads, some with 20 years or more with Penn Traffic. As CEO , Hawkins replaced USDA Choice meat in its butcher shops with a cheaper grade meat. In an effort to reposition its stores as value-focused, Hawkins slashed expenses by using generic grocery bags, postponing store maintenance, and reducing benefits to employees. In

6160-465: Was operated separate from the main Giant Eagle chain. The Shapira family who owns Giant Eagle provided Phar-Mor founder Mickey Monus with the financing necessary to start his chain. After Monus was convicted of embezzlement , Phar-Mor filed for bankruptcy and eventually liquidated. Due to Giant Eagle's stake in Phar-Mor, it was able to acquire Phar-Mor's Youngstown-area assets in bankruptcy court after

6240-437: Was purchased by Giant Eagle and by January 2020, all of the locations were converted into GetGo stores. Giant Eagle has a contract to operate Starbucks kiosks in some of its stores; the workers are employed by Giant Eagle, but become certified baristas after completing the process. Giant Eagle has six stores that contain a franchise of Ace Hardware . These locations offer nearly all of the same products that would be found in

6320-590: Was sold to Moran Foods, owner of Save-A-Lot , by order of the FTC . The P&C name survives today in Cortland and Ithaca under new owners. When the first Big Bear store opened in 1933, it marked the beginning of self-service supermarket operations in the Midwest . Big Bear was the first supermarket in the country to use cashier-operated motorized conveyor belts and the first to use an IBM mainframe computer . In

6400-473: Was the 36th-largest privately held company , as determined by Forbes . Based on 2005 revenue, Giant Eagle is the 49th-largest retailer in the United States. As of summer 2014, the company had approximately $ 9.9 billion in annual sales. As of fall 2023, Giant Eagle, Inc. had 496 stores across the portfolio: 211 supermarkets (Giant Eagle, Giant Eagle Express, Market District, Market District Express) 8 standalone pharmacies, 274 fuel station/convenience stores under

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