1127 S. York Road
Welcome to the Bensenville Jewel-Osco!
Chicago's favorite grocery store chain is back on The Retail Connection! The Bensenville Jewel-Osco is the first one we're seeing that wasn't actually built by the company. A&P (which the rest of the center was designed to replicate) originally opened on this site in 1961, becoming Dominick's in the early 70s. Dominick's razed the store and rebuilt it in 2001, closing with the chain in 2013. After a few years of vacancy, Jewel-Osco opened here in 2016. It has the Jewel Heritage decor we've come to know quite well inside. Let's take a look!
Heading in on the right side. I'm not sure why Bensenville isn't referenced here, especially considering there are no other Jewel stores in town that could be confused with this one.
In a somewhat interesting layout, a Starbucks counter on the front wall turns into the bake shop on the right wall. Across from that is an island with the deli facing the bakery and the pharmacy on the other side. I would imagine this layout came from Safeway, since none of the Jewels we've seen look like this and it's vaguely similar to the Genuardi's layout.
Beer and wine is in the back corner on this side of the store past the bakery, and dairy and meats run down the back wall.
A look at the dairy section from aisle 16, which has health and beauty products in stock.
Fresh cut meat and seafood is on the far left side of the back wall. I think it would've made more sense to put it where the beer and wine is so it would be with all of the other service departments, but at least here it's near produce. Speaking of which...
Fresh flowers are in the front corner next to the left entrance.
Looking at the Huntington Bank branch on the front wall, which as usual was TCF Bank prior to 2021. And, of course, Jojo is making an appearance to promote the Just for U rewards program. What a great way to end the tour!
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Street View Images
2016
Still quite a new Jewel-Osco here. It was only 12 years old when it closed as a Dominick's, too. I don't know when the last new Dominick's opened, but it probably wasn't very long after this store did. Genuardi's, a similar Philadelphia-area Safeway-owned chain which I'm sure we're all familiar with on the blog, opened its last store in 2005 and closed in 2012.
2011
As you can see, Jewel-Osco did make some minor alterations to the entrance towers, but other than that kept the store pretty much the same as it was as Dominick's.
Thanks as always to Calypso for this Jewel-Osco tour! This is quite a nice store, and it's especially interesting to see the layout I recognize from Genuardi's, a family chain from the Philadelphia area, in a store in Illinois. Next week, we're headed to another Jewel-Osco about 30 miles south of Bensenville, near the Naperville area. See you then! Sincerely, The Retail Connection.
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