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68-682: Greengate Centre East is a 71,576-square-foot (6,649.6 m) strip shopping center adjacent to Greengate Centre. It was built in the early 1980s. It was originally anchored by a Giant Eagle supermarket, which moved less than a mile west to the Hempfield Square development in 1997. Currently, Greengate Centre East is anchored by a Big Lots discount store and features a Wines & Spirits liquor store, M&M Leather, and Play It Again Sports . Sonic Drive-In opened for business in March 2009 on

136-539: A G. C. Murphy dime store, various eateries such as Burger King , Hot Sam Pretzels , and Elby's Big Boy (which used to be a Sweet William's ), and specialty retailers including New York & Company , Herrold Jewelers , Waldenbooks , The Gap , RadioShack , Foot Locker , KB Toys , and Spencer Gifts . The mall was also home to local FM radio station WSSZ "Z107" (now WHJB ) and the first mall-based off-track betting center. Sears and Kaufmann's , two department store chains, had both expressed interest in opening

204-782: 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

272-570: 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

340-644: A branch of First Commonwealth Bank, La Bliss bridal boutique, and a travel agency. Heartland Hospice and a number of chiropractic, physical therapy, and medical offices also reside in the building. Greengate Mall was developed by The Rouse Company in 1965 as an enclosed shopping mall . It was the third shopping mall in Greater Pittsburgh to be built as a fully enclosed structure, after Northway Mall, now The Block Northway , and South Hills Village . Original anchor stores included Horne's , J.C. Penney , and Montgomery Ward . Other major tenants included

408-778: 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

476-648: 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

544-419: 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

612-630: 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

680-535: A large vacancy at Greengate that, along with competition from a nearby Walmart and the aforementioned mall, caused it to decline. The Joseph Horne Company was acquired by Lazarus in 1994, and the Horne's store at Greengate Mall was among those converted to the Lazarus name. Lazarus closed two years later, however, and the mall was sold to new owners in August 1998 for $ 1.6 million. In 2001, Montgomery Ward closed with

748-559: 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

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816-449: 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

884-551: A product of nostalgia , spawning such mediums as a website , a Facebook group with a large following, and even a book titled The Malling of America: Travels in the United States of Shopping by William Severini Kowinski. In addition, the mall was featured in the Helene Klodawsky film Malls R Us . Giant Eagle Giant Eagle, Inc. ( Western Pennsylvania English : / ˈ dʒ aɪ n . ɪ ɡ əl / )

952-512: 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

1020-540: 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

1088-440: A store at Greengate Mall since the mall's opening in the 1960s. Rouse, however, did not want to spend additional money to build additional anchor spaces at Greengate Mall. As a result, Westmoreland Mall opened across town in 1977, with Sears and Kaufmann's (turned Macy's ) as its original anchor stores, joined later by The Bon-Ton and, from Greengate itself, J.C. Penney. J.C. Penney's departure to Westmoreland Mall in 1994 left

1156-1603: 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

1224-416: 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

1292-405: 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

1360-469: 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

1428-499: Is a dialect of American English native primarily to the western half of Pennsylvania , centered on the city of Pittsburgh , but potentially appearing in some speakers as far north as Erie County , as far west as Youngstown, Ohio , and as far south as Clarksburg, West Virginia . Commonly associated with the working class of Pittsburgh, users of the dialect are colloquially known as "Yinzers". Scots-Irish , Pennsylvania Dutch , Polish , Ukrainian and Croatian immigrants to

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1496-575: 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

1564-520: 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 was the 36th-largest privately held company , as determined by Forbes . Based on 2005 revenue, Giant Eagle

1632-762: 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

1700-558: 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

1768-422: 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

1836-583: 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

1904-572: 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]

1972-437: 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

2040-472: 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 the GetGo banner, and three standalone car wash under

2108-417: 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

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2176-584: 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

2244-653: 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

2312-537: 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

2380-774: 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

2448-1048: 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

2516-568: 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

2584-485: 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

2652-558: 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

2720-692: 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 the 1980s, when it bought Youngstown, Ohio -based wholesaler Tamarkin Company, and its Valu-King stores that were converted to

2788-416: 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

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2856-412: 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

2924-660: 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 the grocery business for at least three years. Meanwhile,

2992-544: 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

3060-436: 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

3128-484: 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

3196-407: The chain's bankruptcy; shortly afterward, an attempt was made to convert the largely vacant mall to a telecommunications center. This plan failed, and the last of the mall's tenants were evicted in the summer of 2001. Greengate Mall remained vacant until 2003, when THF Realty acquired the property. The mall was demolished for Greengate Centre, which opened in 2005. Today, the defunct mall has become

3264-589: 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

3332-488: 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

3400-469: 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

3468-577: 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

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3536-644: 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

3604-455: 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

3672-543: 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 Western Pennsylvania English , known more narrowly as Pittsburgh English or popularly as Pittsburghese ,

3740-421: 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

3808-760: 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,

3876-696: The former site of the Rax restaurant. Greengate North Plaza is an ancillary office and retail building at Greengate Centre. It sits on the bottom of the hill behind the Wal-Mart Supercenter and was once part of the Greengate Mall complex. It was built in 1977 and was anchored by a General Cinema triple-screen movie theater, later to become part of Carmike Cinemas . It closed in 1999 when the larger Carmike 15 multiplex opened at Westmoreland Mall, five miles (8 km) east. Today, tenants include

3944-466: 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

4012-740: 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 ,

4080-402: 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

4148-453: 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

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4216-405: 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

4284-588: 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

4352-439: 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

4420-407: 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

4488-422: 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

4556-466: 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

4624-438: 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

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