Then Jewel Osco chain of grocery stores was founded in 1899 by Frank Vernon Skiff. Today the company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of SuperValu, which is a grocery retail and distribution company with a network of over 2,500 stores. http://www.supervalu.com/sv-webapp/about/about.jsp Jewel-Osco operates 182 grocery and drug combination supermarket stores that are mostly in Illinois with their key market in Chicago. The official website for this grocery store chain is at www.jewelosco.com. This grocery store chain offers their customers several conveniences including online shopping for many of the store's products and services, different ways to save money including store coupons and discount offers, a preferred savings card, JewelOsco email discounts and offers, and weekly store ads. They also offer gift cards for practical gift-giving and shopping.

Online shopping adds convenience and they provide access online to a number of products and services. https://www.jewelosco.com/eCommerceWeb/ShopAction.do?action=getShopContents

A few of these include:

1. Jewel Osco Pharmacy: You can order a new, refill or transfer a prescription online.
2. Party Platters
3. Flowers and floral arrangements
4. Digital photo services.

Jewel-Osco has stated they are aware that their customers want value and want to save money. They offer several different ways for their store customers to reduce their grocery costs. http://www.jewelosco.com/eCommerceWeb/SaveAction.do?action=getSaveContents

1. JewelOsco email
2. Preferred Savings Card
3. Special Offers and Free Printable coupons from the grocery store website.
4. Weekly Store Ads and saving offers that tailored to specific store locations. http://jewelosco.shoplocal.com/jewelosco/default.aspx?action=entryflash&adref=jewel_osco_homepage
5. Avenu Customized Savings offers personalized for your favorite products. You login by putting in your preferred card number so that you can activate your customized offers and print them online for instant savings. http://www.jewelosco.com/eCommerceWeb/AvenuAction.do?action=dispLoginPage

If you are looking for a practical and convenient gift, JewelOsco offers and provides four different types of gift cards for their customers. Load the giftcards in the grocery store for amounts from $5 to $500. https://www.jewelosco.com/eCommerceWeb/ShopAction.do?action=getGiftCardLearnAbtJewel

1. Classic gift card
2. Parent / student gift cards: Parents load it with money and students use it.
3. Quantity cards: For incentives for staff, volunteers or anyone you want to reward.
4. Partner cards: A large selection of gift cards from over 250 different retail stores, powered by GiftCardMall.com.