Jewel-Osco

I came here after work the other night and came out with a nice amount of groceries on a $ 60 budget and it was a good time to shop since it was later in the evening. It was also one of the few Jewels that are actually clean and well stocked and not having a stampede of hoodrats running amok and tying up every aisle with carts and their disrespectful and obnoxious broad of crumbsnatchers. It was also quiet so it made shopping easier. It’s a great location in the Lakeview neighborhood. Take advantage of things on sale if you want to save money on your grocery bill.

At 8:30 tonight they had one register open! There was a line of at least 9 customers. It looked like everyone was on break at the same time. Once the manager was paged 3 more cashiers eventually streamed in. Had to pack our own groceries. Not well managed.

Do not trust their seafood! It never smells fresh and today I noticed that the freezer with shrimp and crab and lobster was off. The frozen fish was close to totally thawed. I alerted the meat counter guy who passed it off to management whom he said he alerted yesterday. They were still selling it!
Later in the yogurt section a guy showed a stocker that some yogurt had curdled it was so bad, and nothing!
Aren’t there laws against this shoddy food handling?
Unbelievable
I have been shopping here for years, no more. Off to Mariano’s

They just went thru a remodel looks really nice. Huge starbucks, fresh pop corn and a juice bar are just some of things I enjoyed while shopping there

they need to be train ppl to packed our groceries
and all location
they always trow my cupcakes and heavy stuff on top of bananas or bread…
wth ppl

Never trust the pre packaged produce. The produce manager must have been hired away from Waste Management.
Returned a prepackaged 8 pack of sweet corn today because it was rotting. Went back to the area where the corn was sold and saw it was all rotting. Unfathomable.
Prepackaged tomatoes are a 50 – 50 proposition as to freshness any given day.
AVOID this Jewel until they stop ripping people off with spoiled produce. They must figure Yuppies are too pre-​occupied to care or complain.
Stay Away. You have been warned.

Nice remodel. Not. The lines are 15 deep and there’s only 4 cashiers on. No self checkout.

This Jewel-​Osco is HUGE! There is so much to see and buy here. It is the biggest I have seen thus far. They have many aisle filled with a variety of choice items.
The only thing I didn’t like was how my chocolates rung up as home items when they should be food items. I picked up some chocolates from the dollar zone, maybe that is why.
Overall, if I am in the area, I would shop here. They also stock items on Saturday evening, so come on Sunday for first pickings.
Service is friendly and helpful here as well.

Great neighborhood place. I always avoid going on a weekend «shopper hour» (ya know when everyone else grocery shops) because you’ll more than likely not get a cart and carrying a basket is so troublesome at times.

This is a better than average Jewel. The produce was decent, there was a good selection of fresh fish, and the store was clean and well organized. I would actually go a little farther to go here rather than my neighborhood crappy Jewel (Montrose and Broadway — looking at you).

I’ve lived near this Jewel for 10yrs and have never had a pleasant experience here. The staff has always seemed nice but the customer base for this store is absolute garbage (eating food off the shelf and leaving it in the next aisle, shouting matches in the parking lot, accidents in the lot from customers driving the wrong way, rude people, etc…)
I would rather drive 20 minutes out of my way then go to this store which is 2 minutes from me.

This is my neighborhood Jewel. I spend way too much time here.
The people are great who work there. Some have been employed there for 30+ years. Someone usually asks me if I need help or if I’m finding everything okay during every visit, which is nice. You can ask anyone there where something is and they will know what aisle it’s on immediately.
Produce is usually fresh. If I go to the meat counter and ask them for the freshest steaks/​beef/​chicken, etc they are happy to go in the back and bring me the freshest items.
It’s usually pretty clean. More expensive than a Trader Joes, but I can’t get everything I need at TJ so it’s usually double trip to Jewel and Whole Foods or Jewel and Trader Joes when I do my grocery shopping. Once they get more organic stuff, it would be nice to get everything in one spot.

They are stepping up their game!
Upgrading the store, giving it the specialty look.
My only gripe is the professionalism of some of the cashiers. But all in all its looking good over there, and open later than marianos.

Gotta say, ordinarily, I am never impressed with the customer service I receive from grocery stores, but the team at Jewel on Ashland has got me believing that maybe its not too late for the fate of the human race.
The guy in produce overheard me wondering aloud about the lack of arugula and bam!!! points out arugula. I inquire about rapini, and he says «I’m sorry sir, we don’t have any in today.», he called me sir and apologized about something he really has no control over. Dude was awesome.
Hey guy in frozen department, my girlfriend wants shelled edamame, boom he gps’s that shit and points out the exact location like a surveillance satellite from outer space.
Kid grabbing carts in the parking lot «Thank You, have a nice day.»
Top to bottom, best Jewel experience I have ever had.

Compared to the other big grocery stores like Dominicks and Strack and Van Til, this is the best one I have been to that is reasonably close to me. It is enormous and has a great selection of stuff to buy. It has my favorite bacon (Wright), which my Dominicks stopped carrying. It has abundant self check out lanes. Pretty much everything a grocery store needs. I will be back soon once my bacon supply runs low.

My wife wanted to make sure her 23 year old «baby» had his pantry stuffed before she would leave him, so went and sampled the various supermarkets includign this one. She liked it best. Nice selection of fresh fruits and vegetables. They did do one thing which seemed «chintzy» They priced their lunch meats by the HALF POUND. I know everything has gone up, but that just seems stupid. The alcohol section was located upstairs
Store had a good selection with reasonable prices. I wasn’t looking for organic or a large ethnic section though. Plenty of free parking.

If you ever wake up in a grocery store with no memory of how you got there, you will know that you are at the West Lakeview Jewel by the following:
1. This is by far the «nicest» Jewel that you have ever seen south of Wilmette
2. You will spot at least seven of the twelve Big Ten schools represented on various apparel worn by the clientele, 88% of whom are under 35
3. They sell ping pong balls in the beer aisle

In Greek Mythology a «Jewel-​Osco» refers to a mystical merchant that liked to rip people off but magically still kept their business because there wasn’t anyone else to buy things from.
But then the very nice Roman Gods sent to Earth a creature called an «Aldi» (not to be confused with an «Aldo») which conquered the prices of the «Jewel-​Osco» and made some Greeks/​Romans really happy and not-​broke.
The end.

First, let me say that I know it’s a little silly to review a big chain like this. However, I had such a bad experience here last night that I had to share.
My girlfriend and I went to Jewel last night to pick up something to make for dinner. When we got there, there were huge lines which was odd for so late on a Sunday night, but we shrugged it off and shopped anyway. Halfway done shopping, there was an announcement that the P.O.S. machines were running slow, there’s no ETA and sorry for the waits. We decided since they’re just running slow that we’d continue shopping anyway.
We got to the checkout lanes and they were indeed running slow, but there were less people there then when we entered so we waited. We were just killing some time reading the magazines and chatting and not paying attention to anyone else around us. After a good 20 minutes I start to notice we haven’t moved. A security lady was walking around the checkout lines telling us again that the machines are just running extremely slow. I then notice that not a single person at the counters are moving, the P.O.S. machines weren’t just running slow, they weren’t running at all. Why lie to us and say they were running slow… just tell us the truth. The person at the counter in front of us said she had been waiting for an hour and a half already and recommended we just leave.
Whoever the manager on duty was last night should be fired. He not only lied to the customers, but also all the employees were just standing around looking dumb. People were getting pissed and leaving all kinds of food at the lanes, milk, eggs and lots of meat just sitting out for who knows how long. They should have at least had people restocking items. I found out as we finally gave up and left, that they did allow for people to pay with cash only at the customer service desk which they didn’t bother to tell any of the people waiting in line for nothing to happen.
I hope that poor girl waiting over an hour and a half got something more than buy one get one loaves of bread. It’s going to take a lot more than a Super Saturday Sale for Jewel to get my business again, I’ll be shopping at Whole Foods down the street from now on.

Aaggghh! This is expensive too! Even with my JewelS (I am getting the Chicahgo accent) card, I still spent over $ 160 for not that many items. I don’t know where to shop. There was a time when I could grocery shop, get a bunch o’ stuff, use my card and marvel at the savings (46%? I am awesome!). Now, I look at my ‘savings’ and laugh. I’d rather the receipt said, «Really? No. No savings. Just get your isht and keep it moving. We’ve got a line here. Next!» It would be more honest. Ugh.
Plusses: The space is new, big, bright, and clean. There’s an abundance of exotically flavored juices (said as I make goo-​goo eyes at my Indian Summer ® Montmorency Cherry Juice™. EEEEEEE!!!). You have to take a number at the deli in order to be served. That means no siddling from evil-​hearted soccer moms with agendas. The produce is fresh and unwilted. The workers were friendly and helpful. Parking is plentiful.
This is, by no means, a bad grocery store. It’s just way too d@mn expensive. Unfortunately, I am finding this to be the case city-​wide. Is my next stop ‘a quarter for a cart?’