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104-842: The Osco and Sav-on brands survive today as brandings for in-store pharmacies in the Albertsons chain of stores. Osco pharmacies can be found in Jewel stores, which are co-branded Jewel-Osco, as well as in Shaw's and Star Markets . Sav-on pharmacies are found largely in Acme stores. Pharmacies in Albertsons stores are called Osco in Arizona and Montana stores, and Sav-On in other markets, in Nevada and predominantly in Texas for example. In 1915, S.M. Skaggs ,

208-577: A "food store" or a "drug store". The first Jewel-Osco food-drug combination stores were built in 1962. The first Jewel-Osco Family Center was opened in Chicago's Appleton Plaza Shopping center in January 1962. Jewel opened five stores in Michigan in the 1970s, but closed all five in 1996. In 1971, Jewel expanded their brand into Wisconsin by acquiring eight failing stores from Kroger and rebranded

312-515: A Baptist minister, opened a grocery store in American Falls, Idaho , with lower prices on goods. In 1917, O.P Skaggs started a chain of self-service stores, and later sold the franchise in the western states to Christian Call. In 1926, the Skaggs brothers merged the chain with Sam Seelig stores, which had become Safeway in 1925. L.J. Skaggs retired from Safeway in 1932, and in 1934, he opened

416-503: A chain of 77 self-service stores, as well as four Chicago grocery stores operated by the Middle West Stores Company, and began operating them under the name Jewel Food Stores . In 1934, Jewel Food Stores merged with Jewel Tea Company. In 1937, Jewel Tea Company purchased an eight-story building in Chicago's Central Manufacturing District , which served as Jewel Food Stores' headquarters until 1954. The name of

520-420: A city in such close proximity to metropolitan Los Angeles, various plans for the use of the land have been proposed. One such tract of land located at Del Amo Boulevard, west of the 405 , attracted particular attention in the past as a potential site for a National Football League stadium. An outdoor power center complex called Carson Marketplace was originally planned for the site. In February 2015, however,

624-710: A daughter of the Dominguez family in 1857 and managed the rancho. The year 1921 marked the first drilling for oil at Dominguez Hill, on the northwest side of the Rancho San Pedro (also called Rancho Domínguez), site of the famous battle during the Mexican–American War called the Battle of Rancho Domínguez in 1846. The mineral rights to this property were owned by Carson Estate Company, the Hellman family,

728-540: A defensive acquisition of Household International Inc. (parent company of California supermarket chain Vons ) and accepted American Stores' offer. American Stores soon sold Buttrey Food Stores (in 1990), Star Market (in 1994), and White Hen Pantry (in 1985), to pay off debt and for other reasons. In 1989, American Stores expanded to Florida using the Jewel-Osco name, but operating as a separate division distinct from

832-489: A door-to-door coffee delivery service. In 1902, Skiff partnered with his brother-in-law Frank P. Ross, renaming the venture the Jewel Tea Company . By 1903, they had six routes, then 12 routes in 1904 with expansion into Michigan City , Kankakee , and Kewanee . There were 850 routes by 1915. In the early 1900s, it ran a "coffee train" of 40 cars carrying coffee beans exported from South America . During WWI,

936-528: A door-to-door coffee delivery service before it expanded into delivering non-perishable groceries and later into grocery stores, and supermarkets. Prior to its 1984 acquisition by American Stores, Jewel evolved into a large multi-state holding company that operated several supermarket chains and other non-food retail chain stores located from coast to coast and had operated under several different brand names. In 1899, Frank Vernon Skiff founded Jewel in Chicago as

1040-743: A few months later, the New Mexico stores were rebranded again to Albertsons Sav-on in 1999. Under American Stores, Jewel returned to Wisconsin by opening a Jewel-Osco store in a new shopping center in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1995. 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. Albertsons acquired American Stores' holdings, including Jewel and Jewel-Osco stores, in 1999. Seven years later, parent company Albertsons and its stores would be taken over by two separate groups. On May 30, 2006, shareholders approved

1144-460: A group of the company's managers acquired the assets of "J.T.'s General Store" and "created J.T. Dealers Sales and Service". By 1995, "J.T. Dealer Sales and Service" was providing service to 60,000 customers along 250 routes in 35 states. The company's expansion continued throughout the mid-20th century. In 1932, Jewel acquired the Chicago unit of the Canadian firm Loblaw Groceterias, Inc. , then

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1248-785: A holding company to a centralized operating company. As a result of the decision, common functions among American Stores' operating divisions (procurement, distribution logistics, payroll, human resources, etc.) were removed from the operating divisions, consolidated and run centrally. From 1992 through 1998, American Stores consolidated operations and moved responsibilities of their division offices to their headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah. Although 'American Stores' food divisions retained an operating presence in their geographical locations and other centralized marketing, merchandising and other staff functions were relocated between 1992 and 1998 from Oak Brook, Illinois, to Salt Lake City to occupy

1352-484: A month. On January 10, 2013, SuperValu announced the sale of Jewel food stores to Cerberus Capital Management in a $ 3.3 billion deal. The deal closed on March 21, 2013. On May 15, 2017, Jewel-Osco made a bid to purchase all 19 Strack & Van Til grocery stores for $ 100 million. The Jewel-Osco bid was ultimately unsuccessful and the stores were sold in the bankruptcy auction to the Strack and Van Til families and

1456-495: A new corporation. In 1942, the corporation "Self-Service Drug, Inc." was dissolved and succeeded by " O wners S ervice Co mpany", a partnership of L.L Skaggs, H.B. Finch, Paul Stratton and George Hilden. From this company 'Osco' was coined. That year Osco moved its headquarters from Waterloo, Iowa , to the Merchandise Mart in Chicago, Illinois . Sav-on Drugs was a Southern California -based drugstore chain that

1560-664: A new subsidiary, American Drug Stores, Inc., was formed and consisted of American Stores drugstore holdings of Osco Drug, Sav-on Drugs, the Osco side of the Jewel-Osco food-drug combination stores and RxAmerica. RxAmerica began earlier in 1989 as a mail service prescription fulfillment center with a facility in Salt Lake City, Utah . American Stores had a strategy to build a nationwide network of pharmacies, streamline operations and advertising to gain national recognition for

1664-574: A nine-story tower, had the Nissan logo on it. Vincent Roger of the Los Angeles Times wrote that it "was a familiar sight to drivers passing the intersection of the Harbor and San Diego freeways." Around 2006 the company had 1,500 employees at the headquarters. In 2005 a leak revealed that Nissan planned to move its offices to Tennessee. In the summer of 2006, the Nissan headquarters completed

1768-437: A part of Star since 1961. Jewel later sold off Brigham's in 1982. In 1965, Jewel expanded into the convenience store business by opening Kwik Shoppe , a chain that was quickly renamed White Hen Pantry within a few months. Before 1970 Jewel stores were typically located on arterial city streets. Between 1970 and 1990, Jewel moved or expanded most of its stores to be freestanding buildings with ample parking. Throughout

1872-633: A photofinishing lab in Elgin, Illinois . The facility, Crest Photo Lab opened in 1971, and serviced Osco's Chicago, Central and Eastern region stores. The Elgin photo lab expanded several times over the years. As both Osco and its photofinishing market share grew, three more photo plants were added: Alves Photo Service Braintree, Massachusetts , in 1980, Rich Photo Lab Salt Lake City, Utah , in 1984 and Drewry Photocolor Burbank, California , in 1987 (renamed Crest Photo in 1988). The photo labs were sold to Kodak's Qualex photo processing division in 1996, prompted by

1976-565: A population of 95,558. Tongva Indians lived in the area. Carson lies on part of the Spanish land grant Rancho San Pedro , from the King of Spain in 1784. The Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum on Alameda Street in Compton (not far from Carson's city limits) is the historic ranch home of the grantees Juan Dominguez and Manuel Dominguez . Carson was named after George Henry Carson, who married

2080-803: A racial or ethnic majority. Carson is also the location of Dignity Health Sports Park , a sports complex including a soccer-specific stadium used by the Los Angeles Galaxy and formerly the Los Angeles Sol , C.D. Chivas USA , and the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL), a tennis stadium which hosted the LA Women's Tennis Championships , and a track and field facility. Carson Mall, now SouthBay Pavilion , opened in 1973 and

2184-467: A refrigerant detection system, and had energy efficient lighting. Jewel-Osco employs more than 45,000 associates. Its customer base gave it a 45% share of the grocery market in Chicago, trailed by the Safeway Inc. -owned Dominick's chain (ranking second at 15 percent) before its closure. Consumers from 80% of all households in the Chicago metropolitan area visit a Jewel-Osco store at least once

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2288-501: A smaller store than the usual Jewel, with more upscale and organic products. This store closed on October 31, 2009, and no other stores were opened under this banner. In October 2008, Jewel-Osco opened its first LEED certified store at Kinzie and Des Plaines in Chicago. This new store was built with recycled materials and recycled 98% of its construction debris . It featured a rooftop garden, used water-saving devices, had non-ozone-depleting refrigerants in cooling equipment, used

2392-438: A stormy shareholder's meeting before which Jewel shareholder groups controlling 20% of the company's stock were in favor of negotiating with American Stores. On June 14, Sam Skaggs and Jewel president Richard Cline reached an agreement after an all-night bargaining session. American Stores raised its bid for Jewel's preferred stock, increasing the total bid to $ 1.15 billion in cash and securities. In return, Jewel dropped plans for

2496-598: Is currently being operated as a Jewel-Osco. Neither the Chicago Tribune nor the Chicago Sun-Times record when these stores were actually converted or closed. In 1961, Jewel Companies (then Jewel Tea) acquired a chain of discount stores in the Chicago area called Turn Style . This chain was moderately successful throughout the 1960s. Some locations were combined with Jewel's supermarket brands to form Family Centers . The first Turn Style Family Center

2600-486: Is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km ) of it (1.29%) is water. Carson is bordered by West Rancho Dominguez on the north, Rancho Dominguez and Long Beach on the southeast, West Carson on the southwest and Compton to the north. Bixby Marshland , a 17-acre wetland habitat, is located in Carson. Carson experiences a warm-summer Mediterranean climate ( Köppen climate classification Csb ), similar to that of

2704-645: Is located at the Avalon Boulevard exit off the San Diego Freeway ( Interstate 405 ). One professional sports team currently plays their home games in Carson; The Los Angeles Chargers of the NFL played their home games in Carson from 2017 to 2019. Rugby union , modern pentathlon , tennis , field hockey and track cycling will all be held in Carson during the 2028 Summer Olympics . As Carson has large tracts of undeveloped land, unusual for

2808-760: Is provided by the Los Angeles County Fire Department which operates out of Fire Stations 10, 36, 105, 116, and 127. Ambulance transportation is provided by McCormick Ambulance Service Station 17. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) operates the Carson Station in Carson. The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services operates the Torrance Health Center in Harbor Gateway, Los Angeles , near Torrance and serving Carson. Prior to

2912-957: The 64th Assembly District , represented by Democrat Blanca Pacheco . In the United States House of Representatives , Carson is in California's 44th congressional district , represented by Democrat Nanette Barragán . See List of mayors of Carson, California Most of Carson is served by the Los Angeles Unified School District . A portion of Carson is in the Compton Unified School District . High schools serving LAUSD portions of Carson include Carson High School in Carson, Rancho Dominguez Preparatory School in Long Beach , and Banning High School in

3016-632: The California Academy of Mathematics and Science is located in Carson on the campus of California State University, Dominguez Hills , it is actually a part of the Long Beach Unified School District . The school accepts residents of LBUSD, Compton USD, portions of LAUSD (including sections serving Carson), and other districts. LA County Library operates the Carson Branch. Fire protection in Carson

3120-460: The Chicago metropolitan area , Osco operated stand-alone pharmacies (or free standing stores). In the early years, many of the Jewel and Osco combination stores maintained different operating hours from one another and on certain days such as holidays, one side of the combo store would be open, while the other would be closed. By the early 1980s, new and remodeled combo stores had the 'wall' removed and

3224-570: The County Market brand. All free-standing Osco drugstores are now owned by CVS Pharmacy . The Osco name is still used for pharmacies within Albertsons, Jewel, Shaw's and Star Market . SuperValu announced on January 5, 2007, that it would offer for sale its Jewel-Osco stores in the Milwaukee area. Pick 'n Save agreed to take 5 of the 15 stores. Two other stores were purchased by Lena's Food Market. SuperValu announced to its workers that

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3328-476: The Follett Corporation . In 1994, American Stores converted 25 Jewel Food Stores in Chicago, Illinois, to Osco Drug free-standing stores. These older and smaller Jewel stand-alone stores were closed so that American Stores could focus on the combination formats only for Jewel and to expand Osco's presence in Chicago as a response to Walgreens increasing market dominance. The Osco stores replacing

3432-515: The South Bay and the Harbor regions of Los Angeles County, California , located 13 miles (21 km) south of downtown Los Angeles and approximately 14 miles (23 km) away from Los Angeles International Airport . It was incorporated on February 20, 1968. The city is locally known for its plurality of Filipino-Americans and immigrants. As of the 2020 United States Census , the city had

3536-587: The Wilmington area of Los Angeles . The area is within Board District 8. Magnolia Science Academy-3 , a public span school (serving grades 6-12) in Carson, is a Magnolia Public Schools campus. Circa 2019 there were plans to open a campus of the charter school Ganas Academy on the campus of the LAUSD public school Catskill Avenue Elementary School, but there was opposition to this move. Although

3640-513: The 1960s and 1970s, Jewel built and operated many Jewel-Osco side-by-side stores, but most construction after 1983 consolidated Jewel and Osco stores together as one large store under one roof. Today, the two stores present to the customer as one unit. For instance, a customer can check out any items at Jewel or Osco registers, find Jewel and Osco merchandise commingled throughout the store, and can call one telephone number to reach their Jewel-Osco. Each operating unit retains its own public identity as

3744-662: The Brickyard Mall in 2003, the Grand Bazaar store was demolished and replaced with a smaller Jewel grocery store. Rockford, Illinois also had a Jewel Grand Bazaar that opened in 1976 and was converted to a non-union Magna store in 1983. That store closed in 1997. There was also one on Grand Ave. and Kostner Ave. on Chicago's West side. The last "Grand Bazaar" format store was opened in 1975 at Grand ave. and Mannheim road in Franklin Park, Illinois. This building

3848-572: The Carousel Tract neighborhood after the discovery of benzene and methane gas contamination, as well as soil and groundwater contamination. In 2021, Carson was subjected to an air pollution event as a result of hydrogen sulfide emanating from the nearby Dominguez Channel . According to the United States Census Bureau , Carson has an area of 19.0 square miles (49 km ). 18.7 square miles (48 km ) of it

3952-617: The Chicago, Illinois, and Chicago suburb stores and 'Country Osco' (all the other Oscos). These two divisions were combined in 1968 and formed Osco Drug, Inc. Also in 1968, Osco's headquarters relocated from Melrose Park, Illinois to Franklin Park, Illinois . Later that year, the Jewel Imports procurement group was established to import a broad range of general merchandise from around the world to sell in Osco stores. When The Jewel Companies Inc. acquired Buttrey Food Stores in 1966, many of

4056-682: The Dominguez Estate Company, and the Burnham Exploration Company of Frederick Russell Burnham . On September 7, 1923, Burnham Exploration partnering with Union Oil brought in the first producer on the site: Callender No. 1-A well at a depth of 4,068 feet (1,240 m) and 1,193 barrels per day (189.7 m /d). In 2011, Shell was ordered by the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board to clean up

4160-535: The Indiana Grocery Group. Over the years, Jewel has tried other concepts. It is credited with selling the first generic brand product line in 1977. The packaging had no name or pictures—just a list of contents, UPC, and required nutritional information on a white package with a pseudo-army olive-green stripe. The generic line was given the brand "Econo Buy" in the early 1990s. In 1973, Jewel Companies opened an experimental Jewel Grand Bazaar , on

4264-464: The Jewel Companies in 1984. The Jewel Companies, Inc. chairman Weston Christopherson was opposed to a merger and Sam Skaggs subsequently engineered a hostile takeover . On June 1, 1984, American Stores tendered an offer worth $ 1.1 billion for 67% of Jewel's outstanding shares at $ 70 per share. For two weeks, Jewel's management refused to comment on the offer, maintaining its silence even at

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4368-773: The Jewel Express locations would be sold to Alimentation Couche-Tard , the parent of Circle K , and all remaining unsold locations would be closed. Some of these new Circle K locations were paired with the Shell fuel brand. Not all Jewel Express locations closed or converted to Circle K. Two Expresses, one in East Moline, Illinois and the other in Moline, Illinois continue with the Jewel Express concept. In 2008, SuperValu converted one of its closed Sunflower Market stores on Clybourn Avenue to an Urban Fresh by Jewel ,

4472-744: The Jewel stores contained expanded food and produce presentations and were coined 'Osco Foodmarts'. To extend its core drugstore business, in November 1995 American Drug Stores launched a new format called Health 'n' Home , which was a 28,000-square-foot (2,600 m), 18,000-item home health care superstore. The first Health 'n' Home opened in Phoenix, Arizona, and by late 1997 there were 20 Health 'n' Home stores in four states. In 1998, American Stores RxAmerica division and Longs Drug Stores Integrated Health Concepts (IHC) division agreed to merge their Pharmacy Benefits Management (PBM) ventures. Under terms of

4576-406: The Jewel-Osco locations in the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Florida to Albertsons 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. After the acquisition of American Stores by Albertsons just

4680-611: The Los Angeles Basin with noticeably cooler temperatures during the summer due to the nearby Pacific Ocean (which is approximately 6 to 8 miles away). Rainfall is scarce during the summer in Carson but receives enough rainfall throughout the year to avoid Köppen's BSh (semi-arid climate). Carson, like many of the Southern California coastal areas, is subject to a late spring/early summer weather phenomenon called "June Gloom." This involves overcast or foggy skies in

4784-499: The Marketplace plans were scrapped in favor of a $ 1.2 billion NFL stadium, backed by Goldman Sachs , that would have hosted both the then-Oakland Raiders and the then-San Diego Chargers. The NFL had previously considered the site as a location for a stadium, but the plans stalled after it was discovered that the site was once used as a toxic waste dump and would require an extensive clean-up operation before construction

4888-493: The Midwestern Jewel-Osco operations. 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. After three years of operations, American Stores closed those Jewel-Osco stores and sold them to Albertsons in 1992. To consolidate

4992-942: The Sav-on had a total of 141 stores, which includes 130 in California, 6 in Houston, and 5 in Las Vegas. In October 1980, Sav-on opened its 146th store in Orange . Sav-on opened its 148th store in the South Gate Shopping Center Plaza in South Gate , in June 1981. In 1961, The Jewel Companies, Inc. acquired the 30 Osco Drug stores in six Midwest states. In 1962, Osco's headquarters was moved from Chicago's Merchandise Mart to Melrose Park, Illinois , and

5096-427: The age of 18 living in them, 14,178 (55.7%) were married couples living together, 4,787 (18.8%) had a female householder with no husband present, 1,761 (6.9%) had a male householder with no wife present. 3,776 households (14.8%) were made up of individuals, and 1,790 (7.0%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.56. There were 20,726 families (81.5% of all households);

5200-611: The average family size was 3.90. There were 21,992 people (24.0%) under the age of 18, 9,964 people (10.9%) aged 18 to 24, 23,105 people (25.2%) aged 25 to 44, 24,013 people (26.2%) aged 45 to 64, and 12,640 people (13.8%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37.6 years. For every 100 females, there were 91.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.5 males. There were 26,226 housing units at an average density of 1,382.6 per square mile (533.8/km ), of which 19,529 (76.8%) were owner-occupied, and 5,903 (23.2%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate

5304-461: The brand, especially for the high-margin private label products. The name Osco Drug was chosen as the national chain banner because of the large number of stores which already had that name and existed in various parts of the US. The name change was completed for the Skaggs drugstores in 1985 and then for the Sav-on stores in 1986. The name "Osco" did not resonate well with Sav-on's Southern California customer base. American Stores eventually made

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5408-419: The break-up of Albertsons. All Jewel-Osco and Jewel Food Stores outside of Springfield , Illinois were now wholly owned by SuperValu . The Springfield stores were acquired by an investment group led by Cerberus Capital Management . Both of those have since been sold to Niemann Foods , an independent operator of grocery stores, supermarkets and convenience stores in Central Illinois which now operates them under

5512-402: The census-designated place of West Carson . It was founded as "South Bay College" and then renamed California State University at Palos Verdes. It moved to the City of Carson to meet a significant need for higher education opportunities in the largely black middle class suburbs of Los Angeles. Today it is among the most racially diverse campuses in the United States. The student body does not have

5616-490: The city was $ 17,107. About 7.2% of families and 9.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 10.9% of those under age 18 and 8.6% of those age 65 or over. Carson has the distinction of being the only incorporated city in the United States where the black population has a higher median income than the white population. Philippines (43.7%) and Mexico (39.3%) are the most common foreign places of birth in Carson. Irish, German, English, Nigerian and African are

5720-477: The city was 25.69% White, 25.41% Black or African American, 0.56% Native American, 22.27% Asian, 2.99% Pacific Islander, 17.98% from other races , and 5.09% from two or more races. 34.92% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. According to a 2006 estimate, the median income for a household in the city was $ 60,457, and the median income for a family was $ 66,468. Males had a median income of $ 33,579 versus $ 31,110 for females. The per capita income for

5824-426: The city's most recent Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the city's various funds had $ 96.3 million in revenues, $ 81.8 million in expenditures, $ 611.4 million in total assets, $ 129.2 million in total liabilities, and $ 187.2 million in cash and investments. In the California State Legislature , Carson is in the 35th Senate District , represented by Democrat Steven Bradford , and in

5928-461: The company faced soaring costs for materials and production. Compounding this, the US government commandeered a key Jewel production facility. As a result, by 1919 the company was experiencing severe financial setbacks. Within a few years, it returned to profitability through the leadership of new company officials: retired Commanders John M. Hancock and Maurice H. Karker, who had both gained extensive logistics experience as US Navy supply officers during

6032-409: The convenience store, added more marketing tie ins with the main store and added a car wash. This change did not help Supervalu's bottom line so in 2011 Supervalu announced that it was exiting the fuel business and that it would sell or close all fuel stations that it received when it purchased Albertsons which includes the 29 Jewel Express stations that it received. The same announcement said that 27 of

6136-500: The country including all stores in the Des Moines, Iowa , metro market. Jewel (supermarket) Jewel-Osco is a regional supermarket chain in the Chicago metropolitan area , headquartered in Itasca , a western suburb. In 2007, the company had 188 stores across northern, central, and western Illinois ; eastern Iowa ; and portions of northwest Indiana . Jewel-Osco has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Boise -based Albertsons since 1999. The company originally started as

6240-411: The decision to change the name of the former Sav-on stores back to Sav-on Drugs. Rumors circulated at the time claiming that the reason for the name change back to "Sav-on" was due to "Osco" having the same pronunciation as the Spanish word asco (oss-ko), which means "nausea" or "disgust", a considerable factor within Southern California's heavily Hispanic market. This explanation for the name change

6344-427: The drug chain Payless founded later in the century), and was managed by George Hilden. The store remained in operation until 1987, when it closed due to redevelopment in downtown Rochester. In 1937, while in the process of opening a second store in Mason City, Iowa , it was learned that another company had already registered the name "Payless" in the state. L.L changed "Payless" to "Self-Service Drug, Inc." and formed

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6448-516: The drugstore operations division and general merchandise procurement functions were moved from Salt Lake City, Utah , to Scottsdale, Arizona , operating as Albertsons Drug Region . In 2002, Albertsons sold its 84 free-standing Osco Drug stores in Massachusetts , New Hampshire and Maine to the Jean Coutu Group , a Canadian drugstore company. Jean Coutu re-branded the acquired Osco stores as Brooks Pharmacy . Also in 2002, Albertsons, due to financial difficulties, closed several of its stores across

6552-607: The emergence of in-store one-hour photo labs and digital photography technology. In 1974, Osco's headquarters were relocated from Franklin Park, Illinois, to a new facility at 1818 Swift Drive in Oak Brook, Illinois . In November 1980, The Jewel Companies Inc. purchased Sav-on Drugs, Inc. which was headquartered in Anaheim, California , and had 150 stores in California, Nevada and Texas. The Sav-on chain became Osco's 'Western Region'. In 1984, American Stores Company, which consisted of Alpha Beta , Acme Markets , and Skaggs, acquired The Jewel Companies Inc. [REDACTED] In 1989,

6656-421: The first self-service drugstore in the US in Tacoma, Washington . Loronzo L. (L.L.) Skaggs owned a controlling stock in a company called Quality Food in Minnesota and subsequently left the Safeway business. L.L. opened a chain of self-service drugstores in the Midwest similar to his brother L.J.'s stores in the west. The first store opened in 1937 in Rochester, Minnesota , and was named "Pay-Less" (different from

6760-428: The first side-by-side "Jewel-Osco" store opened. The early Jewel-Osco combination (combo) stores were two individual stores, separated by an interior wall (and in some locations, a half-wall), allowing a customer to go back and forth between each store without having to go outside. The first Jewel-Osco Family Center was opened in Chicago's Appleton Plaza Shopping center in January 1962. The first Eisner-Osco Family Center

6864-408: The following June. By the end of 1979, Jewel T had 87 stores located in the states of Florida, Georgia, Texas, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Alabama. In the first month of 1980, Jewel T opened eight stores in highly competitive Southern California. In 1981, Jewel T opened stores in Atlanta and its 150th store in Louisiana. Carson, California Carson is a city in

6968-889: The former Eisner properties. One of the first properties to let go was the former Eisner warehouse facility in Champaign in 1986. 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. Jewel also closed central Illinois locations that were formerly Eisner in Decatur (in 1995), Champaign-Urbana (in 1998), and Springfield (2006). In 1961, Jewel acquired two growing non-food related retail chains, Chicago-based Osco Drug stores, and Brighton, Massachusetts -based Turn Style discount department stores, to complement their food store division when building one-stop shopping destinations, such as

7072-443: The former Pay Less stores. All 127 stores were located in Southern California except for five in Houston, Texas. The chain also had plans of opening stores in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the near future. In 1978, Sav-On acquired a warehouse in Anaheim in which the company remodel it to be a new warehouse distribution site and also as the site of its new corporate headquarters to replace it previous offices in Marina del Rey. By August 1980,

7176-456: The home improvement retail market by acquiring Republic Lumber in 1972. During the 1960s, Jewel expanded by acquiring several chains. Jewel expanded their food store holdings by acquiring Cambridge -based Star Market in 1964 and the Great Falls -based Buttrey Food Stores in 1966 to add to their existing Jewel and Eisner food store chains. The acquisition of Star Market also gave Jewel control of Brigham's Ice Cream , which had been

7280-486: The joint venture, RxAmerica and its former corporate partner, Geneva Pharmaceuticals, parted ways, and RxAmerica combined with Longs' IHC division in a 50/50 partnership. The alliance created a national PBM of nearly 1,400 Longs and American Stores pharmacy outlets and a nationwide network of 40,000 pharmacies serving some 3 million patients under contract. Longs and Albertsons remained equal partners up though 2001, when Albertsons sold their 50% interest to Longs. During 1999,

7384-431: The merger, all of Jewel's subsidiaries soon had an Osco Drug. Some Eisner Food Stores locations were re-branded "Eisner-Osco". When Jewel acquired Star Market in 1964, the first Osco Drug in New England was opened, and some were next to Star Market locations and were branded as "Star-Osco". By 1968, Osco grew to 168 stores in sixteen states. During most of the 1960s, Osco operated as two divisions – 'City Osco', comprising

7488-617: The morning which yield to sun by early afternoon. The U.S. Census accounts for race by two methodologies. "Race alone" and "Race alone less Hispanics" where Hispanics are delineated separately as if a separate race. According to the 2020 U.S. Census , the racial makeup (including Hispanics in the racial counts) was 11.85% (11,325) White , 22.76% (21,752) Black , 1.12% (1,066) Native American , 26.69% (25,501) Asian , 1.79% (1,713) Pacific Islander , 23.61% (22,557) Other Race , and 12.19% (11,644) Multiracial . When residents of Hispanic or Latino ancestry were counted in their own category,

7592-407: The most common ancestries. The most common non-English languages spoken in Carson are Spanish and Tagalog. As of 2021, the top ten employers in the city were: Nissan previously had its North American headquarters in Carson. The 42-acre (17 ha) property consisted of 13 buildings, with a total of 700,000 square feet (65,000 m ) of office and light industrial space. One of the buildings,

7696-680: The move. Over half of the employees chose to stay in the Los Angeles area. County of Los Angeles Public Library operates the Carson Regional Library and the Dr. Martin Luther King Library. Both libraries are in Carson. Carson is the site of California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH). CSUDH is a major commuter school, particularly for students from the surrounding cities of Long Beach , Compton , and

7800-542: 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. Within six months, American Stores sold all of

7904-431: The new Family Centers and Jewel-Osco (Eisner-Osco, Star-Osco, Buttrey-Osco) food-drug combinations. The acquisition of both Osco and Turn Style allowed Jewel to expand into non-food related retailing that would complement their existing food retailing business and also to expand the geographic range of its main food distribution business since the non-food companies had a different geographical footprint. Jewel expanded into

8008-729: The other 94 stores were located in California. The 100th store was opened in Santa Clarita in December 1975. Sav-On purchased the inventories, fixtures, leasehold improvements, and other assets for 15 Pay Less Drug Stores in Southern California from the Oakland-based Pay Less in March 1978. The new stores were mostly located in Orange and San Diego counties. Sav-On had 112 stores prior to the sale and 127 after including

8112-634: The parent company remained "Jewel Tea Company" until 1967 when the stockholders voted to change the name to Jewel Companies, Inc. to better reflect the expansion of the company into different markets. In 1967, the company went public and its stock was traded on the Midwest Stock Exchange . In 1957, Jewel acquired the Champaign -based Eisner Food Stores , located in downstate Illinois and later in west central Indiana ( Lafayette , West Lafayette , and Bloomington ). This acquisition

8216-438: The population was 6.87% (6,569) Non-Hispanic White , 22.25% (21,264) Non-Hispanic Black , 0.19% (185) Native American , 26.17% (25,011) Asian , 1.66% (1,585) Pacific Islander alone (non-Hispanic) , 0.51% (484) Other Race alone (non-Hispanic) , 2.95% (2,817) Multiracial and 39.39% (37,643) of Hispanic or Latino origin. The 2010 United States Census reported that Carson had a population of 91,714. The population density

8320-420: The population was of Mexican ancestry, 1.1% Salvadoran, 1.0% Guatemalan, 0.6% Puerto Rican, 0.3% Cuban, 0.2% Honduran, 0.2% Peruvian, and 0.2% Ecuadorian. The Census reported that 90,411 people (98.6% of the population) lived in households, 1,170 (1.3%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters and 133 (0.1%) were institutionalized. There were 25,432 households, out of which 10,980 (43.2%) had children under

8424-545: The remaining stores, if unsold, would close at the end of March. In 2008, the headquarters for the Illinois-based Jewel-Osco division was moved from Melrose Park to Itasca. In 1997, Albertsons added gas pumps and a small convenience store in front of a store in Eagle, Idaho. Since the experiment was successful, Albertsons decided to expand this concept to all stores that would be able to support it and

8528-451: The same year. Jewel T expanded into Pennsylvania in 1978 and many suburban Philadelphia kids in this gas crisis era remember mom driving the Vega or Pinto out to Jewel T, and bringing back powdered milk, frozen pretzels, and bulk frozen cherry pielettes. They expanded to Atlanta in 1979. Jewel T had approximately 30 stores in two states at the beginning of 1979 and 44 stores in four states by

8632-490: The service expanded to include 350 grocery and 10,000 general merchandise items by 1981 when Jewel sold its "Jewel Home Shopping Service" division to its employees and divest itself from its roots. At the time of the divesture, the division provided service to customers in mostly small towns located along 1000 routes in 42 states. The division became a 700-member owned cooperative called "J.T.'s General Store" in which route sales persons were independent agents. In October 1994,

8736-510: The southwest side of Chicago; a store that encompassed an entire city block at the northwest corner of 54th Street and Pulaski Road. This store featured bulk packaging, free samples on weekends, and 24-hour service. See photos: photos Archived 2004-12-13 at the Wayback Machine This experimental store was in service from 1973 until the 1980s, when it was reformatted as a standard Jewel-Osco combo store. A second Grand Bazaar

8840-475: The store became one, and to this day, Osco retains control over drug, general merchandise, pharmacy and liquor departments in the Jewel Osco combo stores. In the late 1960s, Osco was seeking to purchase or build a photofinishing plant to service its stores. At the time, the company was using outside vendors, and the film developing quality and service was inconsistent. In 1970, working with Kodak , Osco built

8944-647: The stores Jewel. After a decade of operations, Jewel closed all their stores in Wisconsin in 1980. Those locations were sold to Sentry Foods . Jewel did not return to Wisconsin until 1995. Until 2010, Jewel and Osco stores under the same roof have had separate operations, managers, ordering and receiving procedures, budgets and employees. A 2010 cost-saving measure brought both Jewel and Osco oversight under one store director for each site. In 1978, Jewel Companies, Inc. attempted to acquire Skaggs Companies, Inc. through an exchange in stock in which Jewel would have been

9048-484: The stores were converted to a combination store format and bannered as "Buttrey-Osco" with common checkout stands but separate store management, all under one roof. By the early 1980s, Buttrey eventually operated 60 stores in Montana, North and South Dakota, western Minnesota, Wyoming, eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, Utah, and Idaho. Stores were spread thinly over a 2,000-mile (3,200 km) wide territory. Outside of

9152-514: The surviving company and still based in Melrose Park instead of Salt Lake City . A few months later, Skaggs turned down the merger offer. At that time, Skaggs had 229 stores. After six years, Jewel suffered many losses due to failed marketing concepts and general mismanagement while Skaggs became larger and strong enough to perform a hostile take over of Jewel under its new name: American Stores. American Stores made an offer to acquire

9256-410: The then-new American Stores Tower. Pharmacy operations were relocated to Scottsdale Arizona with certain pharmacy systems-related resources continuing to operate from the Chicago area after being relocated to 3030 Cullerton Drive in Franklin Park, Illinois. After American Drug Stores' move to Salt Lake City, Utah, was complete in 1998, Osco's Oak Brook, Illinois, 1818 Swift Drive headquarters was sold to

9360-589: The typical 30,000 for a full-service supermarket, with a selection rather limited to canned and dry foods and non-perishable with everything sold at a steep discount. To avoid cannibalizing sales from their existing markets in the Midwest and North East Atlantic States, the first Jewel T location was opened in New Port Richey, Florida , in 1977, quickly followed by 2 other stores in the St. Petersburg area during

9464-657: The war. In 1929, the company built a new office, warehouse, and coffee roasting facility in suburban Barrington , Illinois, creating hundreds of local jobs despite the Great Depression . The Barrington location served as the headquarters and main warehouse facility for both the home delivery and food store divisions until the completion of the new warehouse and office complex at Melrose Park in 1953. In 1949, deliveries were provided on 1876 routes in 43 states to customers mostly in small towns. Customers in cities could visit 154 company-owned grocery stores. Later,

9568-486: Was 1.3%; the rental vacancy rate was 3.7%. 68,924 people (75.2% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 21,487 people (23.4%) lived in rental housing units. As of the census of 2000, there were 89,730 people, 24,648 households and 20,236 families residing in the city. The population density was 4,762.2 inhabitants per square mile (1,838.7/km ). There were 25,337 housing units at an average density of 1,344.7 per square mile (519.2/km ). The racial makeup of

9672-617: Was 4,835.2 inhabitants per square mile (1,866.9/km ). The racial makeup of Carson was 21,864 (23.8%) White (7.7% Non-Hispanic White), 21,856 (23.8%) African American , 518 (0.6%) Native American , 23,522 (25.6%) Asian (20.9% Filipino, 0.8% Japanese, 0.8% Korean, 0.5% Chinese, 0.4% Vietnamese, 0.4% Asian Indian, 0.2% Cambodian, 0.1% Pakistani, 0.1% Thai), 2,386 (2.6%) Pacific Islander (2.2% Samoan, 0.2% Guamanian, 0.1% Native Hawaiian), 17,151 (18.7%) from other races , and 4,417 (4.8%) from two or more races. There were 35,417 residents of Hispanic or Latino origin, of any race (38.6%); 32.6% of

9776-661: Was allowed by local government. The new concept was called Albertsons Express . After Albertsons acquired American Stores in 1999, Albertsons wanted to expand the Albertsons Express concept to the former American Stores chains. The first Jewel Express was opened in front of a Jewel-Osco in South Elgin in October 2000. In attempt to increase revenue in 2009, Supervalu enhanced the Express concept by enlarging

9880-593: Was founded by Christian J. Call in San Bernardino , in July 1945. Ira D. Brown served as general manager. The chain was the second largest California-based drugstore chain in Southern California at the time it was acquired by The Jewel Companies in November 1980. In October 1947, the third store in the chain opened in Long Beach . The store was managed by Ronald L. Call while the chain was co-owned at that time by Christian J. Call and Alton D. Clark The seventh store

9984-576: Was legally allowed to commence. In May 2015, the Carson City Council allocated $ 50 million to clean up the site for either the dual NFL stadium or the originally planned Carson Marketplace as a fallback should the NFL stadium not come to fruition. On January 12, 2016, NFL owners rejected Carson's bid to host an NFL stadium in favor of the competing bid of SoFi Stadium in Inglewood backed by Rams owner Stan Kroenke . According to

10088-747: Was moved from downtown Los Angeles to a new building in Marina del Rey in 1967. The company's second president, Ronald L. Call, died in March 1968 and was replaced by Ira Brown. Sav-on opened its 64th store in Torrance in July 1971. In November 1972, Sav-On Drugs stock began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol SVN. The 77th store was opened in Marina del Rey in January 1974. Sav-on opened its 98th store in Carson in October 1975. Except for four stores in Houston, Texas,

10192-710: Was opened in South Gate in September 1948. In June 1952, the ninth store opened in Lakewood . The tenth store of the chain opened in Gardena in October 1952. Founder and president Christian Call died on January 11, 1958. He was replaced by his nephew Ronald Call. The 27th store was opened in the North Hills Shopping Center in Granada Hills in July 1959. The 35th store in the chain

10296-631: Was opened in West Lafayette, Indiana , in September 1970. The first Osco Drug store to open adjacent to an existing Buttrey Food store occurred in Anaconda, Montana , in July 1967. The first example of a purpose-built Buttrey-Osco Family Center occurred with the opening in Boise in September 1969. The first Star-Osco Family Center opened in Manchester, New Hampshire , in October 1970. After

10400-498: Was opened in 1974 at 87 W. 87th St in Chicago and in 1977, a "Jewel Grand Bazaar" was opened at 6505 W. Diversey in the Brickyard Mall. A fourth location was opened in Franklin Park in 1975. During the 1990s, the Diversey Avenue Grand Bazaar was reformatted to a regular Jewel grocery store, but continued to carry some of the traditional "Grand Bazaar" features such as bulk foods. With the reconstruction of

10504-567: Was opened in Racine in March 1962. In 1978, 19 of 22 locations were sold to May Department Stores and converted to the Venture format. Other stores were converted into large Osco Drug Stores. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Jewel Companies operated a no-frills grocery chain called Jewel T (phonetically pronounced "Jewel Tea", as a nod to the former name of the company). The typical store tends to be rather small, 8,000 square feet instead of

10608-792: Was opened in the Park Western Shopping Center in San Pedro in September 1963. The United States Department of Justice filed an anti-trust lawsuit against Sav-On's rival Thrifty Drug Stores in Federal Court in August 1962 to force Thrift to divest itself of its 28.75% stock it owns in Sav-On Drugs, Inc. In December 1964, Thrifty Drug Stores sold its almost 30% stake in its rival Sav-On back to Sav-On that it had acquired since 1958. The company's general offices

10712-550: Was refuted by American Stores. The name change on all stores was completed in 1989, and the Sav-on Drugs brand was re-launched in Southern California and Nevada. At the same time that the company was making major divestments in the early 1990s, American Stores also looked for opportunities to make strategic minor acquisitions that would enhance its position in the main markets where it needed to strengthen market share. In 1992, American Stores shifted its strategy from that of

10816-444: 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 and slowly started to sell off

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