Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jewel (supermarket)

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The result of the debate was Keep --Aranda56 02:48, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Jewel (supermarket)
The page is clearly an advertisement for Jewel. The neutral point of view rule is violated. 64.107.156.234 19:36, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy, Speedy Keep. If it's really that bad, tag it with POV and explain why. Do not list on AFD. --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 19:37, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Someone please stop this AfD. It was an invalid nomination that has since been corrected. It may have been wrong, but there was really no need to have the AfD tag remain on the article when there was never any intent to actually delete it. --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 21:16, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay, I went ahead and tagged this with the anon's problems. Feel free to close this AFD. --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 19:40, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep for sure minor bias and no attempt to discuss and remove it --Terry 19:59, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Important grocery chain. The anon is right that the language is promotional. It needs serious editing to reflect a neutral point of view. Dpbsmith (talk) 20:17, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Amren (talk) 20:52, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep: I've never heard of them, but then, I'm not in the "Chicago metropolitan area". Google never lies. - mholland 21:01, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and cleanup. Major grocery chain.  There should also be a mention of the "Jewel Tea man", who used to drive a truck and make home deliveries.  And this was in small towns in California, not the Chicago area, though there are no Jewel stores in California (that I know of).  Zoe 21:14, September 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * question is this a major grocery chain in Chicago, or is it a major grocery chain across the USA? I have never heard of it (not that proves anything) and I'm sure there are "Jewel" stores in the UK. If the consensus is keep then please tidy up!. Rhyddfrydol 21:27, 8th September 2005 (UTC)
 * There's a Jewel right in my town, and several I've seen all over the Chicagoland area, and perhaps the Midwest. Keep and cleanup. --Apostrophe 23:26, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Short answer: historically they were very big regionally. Due to mergers and the tendency to keep local names it's a little hard to tell nowadays. Jewel itself was so big regionally that anyone who lived in the Chicago area or went to school there or had relatives there would know about it, and from time to time it has made national news, I forget why. Something unflattering, I think. Drug stores with the Osco name are national, I think. At any rate they arrived in Massachusetts a couple of decades ago. When I go to the "Jewel-Osco" site and search for stores in Massachusetts it brings up about seventy store names within 20 miles of my home, but they are all either "Shaws" or "Star," which are regional household names that have apparently been sucked into the Albertsons maw. Traditionally, grocery chains used to be regional. Over the last few decades the U.S. government has all but abandoned enforcement of antitrust and everything regional is combining into national oligopolies, but for some reason the grocery chains prefer to keep the familiar regional names on the storefronts. Dpbsmith (talk) 12:19, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, but needs to be NPOVed. Owen&times; &#9742;  23:27, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep snd cleanup as notable supermarket chain see Yahoo Business Profile. By the way, the AfD tag is missing. Capitalistroadster 00:48, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and cleanup. Notable. -- DS1953 05:42, September 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep; it's a division of the second-largest grocery chain in the USA, Albertsons. --Metropolitan90 08:17, September 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep Notable company. Clueless Newbie. Roodog2k (talk) 18:16, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * comment I cannot see how the article is POV. Roodog2k (talk) 18:16, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment That could possibly be because I removed some stuff about how "Jewel is a trustworthy name in Chicago, known for spotless stores and good service offerings," how the Jewel Grand Bazaar "wowed the public," etc. Dpbsmith (talk) 19:09, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.