Jewel
Cygan
âWe felt it was important to have our own people doing it â said  Doug Cygan   Jewel-Osco president. âWeâre excited about being able to provide what a lot of people want.â
To accomplish this  Jewel hired 100 employees to staff its fledgling e-commerce department  most of whom will fulfill the orders and make the deliveries. The company also bought a fleet of about 60 delivery trucks fitted with compartments of varying temperatures to accommodate fresh food delivery   Cygan  said.
Jewel-Osco parent company Albertsons has rolled out a similar delivery service in other markets in the U.S.   Cygan  said. The Chicago launch was delayed in part because of the uncertainty over Cook Countyâs sweetened beverage tax  which is now set to end Dec. 1.
 Cygan  noted that the shift toward delivery is actually a return to the historic roots of the company  which delivered tea as Jewel Tea Co. in the early 1900s. Today Jewel-Osco has 187 stores.
âWeâre so proud to be able to deliver again â  Cygan  said.
âWe felt it was important to have our own people doing it â said  Doug Cygan   Jewel-Osco president. âWeâre excited about being able to provide what a lot of people want.â
To accomplish this  Jewel hired 100 employees to staff its fledgling e-commerce department  most of whom will fulfill the orders and make the deliveries. The company also bought a fleet of about 60 delivery trucks fitted with compartments of varying temperatures to accommodate fresh food delivery   Cygan  said.
Jewel-Osco parent company Albertsons has rolled out a similar delivery service in other markets in the U.S.    [TGT] said. The Chicago launch was delayed in part because of the uncertainty over Cook Countyâs sweetened beverage tax  which is now set to end Dec. 1.
  [TGT] noted that the shift toward delivery is actually a return to the historic roots of the company  which delivered tea as Jewel Tea Co. in the early 1900s. Today Jewel-Osco has 187 stores.
âWeâre so proud to be able to deliver again â   [TGT] said.