Talk:Big Y

Did Someone Turn This Into Free Advertising?
I work at the Big Y in Bethel, CT and this article is rather commercial. And poorly. We don't do "Mad Monday" any more. Although I'm not sure if it is our store or all of the stores. I'll change that, but I wouldn't know what to change about the nonsense it says about savings and "Buy 1 get 2" sales. Vicious203 (talk) 13:01, 10 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree. This page looks like an ad for Big Y. Supermarkets typically moved sale dates from a Sunday start to avoid paying overtime for relabeling of store shelves on the weekend for a Sunday sale date, not because paychecks come out on Thursday. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cobbcity (talk • contribs) 20:49, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Edit request on 30 June 2013
The Name of this page needs to be changed from "Big Y" to "Big Y World Class Market" - (the corporation is also Big Y Foods, Inc. but the official business name of all the locations is Big Y World Class Market.) This change is being requested to expedite the merge of the wiki organization page on Facebook and the brand page. I do not know how this wiki page was created but I am an official representative of Big Y World Class Market and Big Y Foods, Inc. and would like to have this page be editable by approved corporate administrators. Bigysocialmedia (talk) 15:48, 30 June 2013 (UTC) — Preceding text originally posted&#32;on Module talk:Infobox&#32;([//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Module_talk:Infobox&diff=prev&oldid=562261257 diff])

4th largest in New England
At best the claim that Big Y is the 4th largest supermarket chain in New England is out of date, at worst it was never true. The revenue figure is from 2004, and lists it at only $1.22 billion. Yet the figure from Demoulas Market Basket, which is not listed among the 3 larger chains, is from 2015 and shows a revenue figure of $4 billion, more than 3 times the size of the Big Y. Bostoner (talk) 22:29, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Buying hannaford
They bought out hannaford Planer 12346578955 (talk) 20:42, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Stop and Shop's parent company bought Hannaford. Big Y just bought eight stores because of anti-trust concerns.  Calidum   ¤   02:30, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

COI Edit Request
Hello. As a former employee of the Holden Big Y, I will disclose my conflict of interest and not make any changes to this article myself, but I would like to propose the following changes: Thanks, and I look forward to hearing back. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 02:15, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) To add this photo of the first Y Cash Market store on opening day 1936. The copyright owner of the photo needs to complete this form in order to release the image under a Creative Commons license.
 * 2) The Worcester Telegram claims Big Y operates in 77 locations across Massachusetts and Connecticut, as seen in this article.✅ I couldn't find the part about Massachusetts and Connecticut
 * 3) The same source states the current director of workforce management at the company is Jim Wilson. ❌ Director of workforce management is not considered a key executive in the company
 * 4) Finally, per WP:REDLINK, remove the links for the D'Amours. They do not have any notability anywhere other than the Southern New England region. ✅
 * Hello. I am coming back because I have spotted a possible copyright violation with this article. The comparison can be found here. Pinging for this request first. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 18:25, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
 * It's good to be vigilant about copyright infringements, but in this case, I believe we have stumbled upon a false alarm. Some careless websites will WP:BACKWARDSCOPY content from Wikipedia without attribution. It's very commonly done by websites whose exclusive purpose is to generate ad revenue. They reuse Wikipedia content because, well, it's easier than writing their own content. The key to investigating whether something is a backwards copy or an actual infringement is to consider both the nature of the source and the histories of both pages. The copied paragraphs have been in Wikipedia since 2007, whereas judging from the URL of eshoppingnews.com's page for Big Y that you supplied, eshoppingnews.com didn't post their "content" until March 2017. Additionally, just about every page on eshoppingnews.com is a copy of each supermarket's corresponding article on Wikipedia. Based on this evidence, it's far more likely that eshoppingnews.com copied from us rather than the other way around. I'll take a look at the remainder of your request when I have a moment. Altamel (talk) 18:52, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
 * How about for the rest of my request above ? jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 18:53, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi My apologies for the delay. I would be happy to review this edit request. Next to each item you have proposed, I have added a tag (done, not done, or comment). If you have any questions or disagree with anything, please leave a message on my talk page and I would be happy to take a second look at it. Have a nice day! Daylen (talk) 23:58, 16 September 2017 (UTC)