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My uncle Samuel Saporito who started at the #11 store in Newark was a pioneer in the principals of ordering, stocking and presenting beautiful produce presentations. At the end of his career he trained many companies on the wave of the future "Frozen Foods". Many of his concepts are used today by old Big Bear competitors. He started out in Produce in Newark and became a Regional Manager in Columbus, OH. No small task for a young boy who came from S. 6th Street in Newark. He Loved Big Bear and shed tears over its demise i.e., when Penn drove the company into the ground. So many great people destroyed by greed. A sad ending.
Yeah, lots of people that don't have accounts have been updating the store list. I found the store list, and lots of other stuff at the auction at #216 Chillicothe. I bought the big neon bear that hung in the glass atrium and put it on the side of my barn in Irwin, Ohio. Its sad that very little was saved from a once great company. JaredCMH 13:23, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
I've mostly been updating this list. I'm trying to make a database of all the former Big Bear Stores with info about each one. If you have any more, let me know. (datrain021)
Im a former employee of store 212 (datrain021)
I too was a front end manager at westerville, although my main department was the service desk/C.O. How long did it take to remodel #29 and for how long was it shut down? Also I'm pretty sure Clintonville is a two diget number, I worked there for a few months when it became a Giant Eagle, and I heard it opened in 1986, which is before Penn Traffic took over. After they took over is when they went to numbers in the 200's. Let me know if you have any more pics of stores, I'm trying to make a collection of photos of all the big bear stores I can get. (Datrain021)
I just checked the list and #69 was 2801 N. High Street.. I can scan this 2 page document store list (it has manager and store director names on it! for anyone that wants it... Did you guys use the NCR 7000 POS/Checkout System? We used the one from #260 in my resale store I had for awhile in Dublin, and it worked great. JaredCMH 21:47, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure which NCR we used at #212, but I know it was an older system (older than the store itsel) from the 1980's. On average we had one register broken every few weeks. Althoug from my perspective, the system improved greatly when they added the 'you could have saved' part to the receipt, as I no longer had to spend 10 minutes going through the ad and figuring out how much we owed the customer. Also, I'll take a copy of that store list, with any other big bear stuff you might have.(datrain021)
Was the Harts location in Ashland, KY ever a Big Bear or Big Bear Plus store? I noticed Ashland was listed as a Big Bear location, but now it's been taken off the list! Thanks. The Punk 15:24, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure, i know it was a Harts location, and wasnt a Big Bear in the 2000's. It probably wasnt ever a Big Bear, but it could have been. Its currently a Krogers store. (See harts on wiki)
Store 270 in Newark wan't a Big Bear Plus. It also wasn't technically in Newark, but was in Heath, but that's just quibbling.
It was a mini plus. I tried to delete the mini pluses from the list but another guy put them back on. In terms of calling it Newark, I think it was just marketing- going with the lager maket, but if you have info saying it was called Heath Big Bear Id change it to that.
Is there anyone out there that used to work at a Big Bear Plus? I was wondering what the division of sales was in each dept, especially in furniture, garden center, and other things not found in a normal big bear store.
Looking around I found a Big Bear Supermarket in Decatur, GA, a Big Bear Foods in Atlanta, GA, and Big Bear Food Mart in Canada. Do they have any relation to the Big Bear in this article or that their similar names one of those quirks that happen?-- 2606:A000:131D:4413:7804:982C:5DD7:96E8 ( talk) 02:48, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
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Two editors have been reverting each other for days now regarding whether the list of former store locations should be included. I have protected the page to ensure this gets discussed here; the current version is not endorsed by me. I have suggested some possible ways to compromise, such as by listing the number of stores that were in each municipality/community, and/or giving information on the most important stores (the first, the largest, the last), but these are only suggestions; I voice no further opinion on the matter. But I do expect it to be discussed and discussed here. Postdlf ( talk) 15:18, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
look -- if you read back in the discussion, I actually have an internal document from the company that listed all the stores, with store manager names included see the entry of 23 November 2006. This is the basis for the list. How would we like to "verify" this document and end this nikpicking adventure for SchuminWeb? 98.28.197.0 ( talk) 13:54, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
While “All we did was listen” was an ad campaign, it was an ill fated one. With conditions at the stores degrading, Phil Hawkins ok’d the “ All we did was listen” campaign. The irony, conditions at the stores accelerated downward. One Columbus wag said “People complained, Hawkins and his corporate undertakers paid no attention. In effect, all they did was listen, and then they continued to siphon money from the bottom line.” ClevelandExPat ( talk) ClevelandExPat ( talk) 00:04, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
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My uncle Samuel Saporito who started at the #11 store in Newark was a pioneer in the principals of ordering, stocking and presenting beautiful produce presentations. At the end of his career he trained many companies on the wave of the future "Frozen Foods". Many of his concepts are used today by old Big Bear competitors. He started out in Produce in Newark and became a Regional Manager in Columbus, OH. No small task for a young boy who came from S. 6th Street in Newark. He Loved Big Bear and shed tears over its demise i.e., when Penn drove the company into the ground. So many great people destroyed by greed. A sad ending.
Yeah, lots of people that don't have accounts have been updating the store list. I found the store list, and lots of other stuff at the auction at #216 Chillicothe. I bought the big neon bear that hung in the glass atrium and put it on the side of my barn in Irwin, Ohio. Its sad that very little was saved from a once great company. JaredCMH 13:23, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
I've mostly been updating this list. I'm trying to make a database of all the former Big Bear Stores with info about each one. If you have any more, let me know. (datrain021)
Im a former employee of store 212 (datrain021)
I too was a front end manager at westerville, although my main department was the service desk/C.O. How long did it take to remodel #29 and for how long was it shut down? Also I'm pretty sure Clintonville is a two diget number, I worked there for a few months when it became a Giant Eagle, and I heard it opened in 1986, which is before Penn Traffic took over. After they took over is when they went to numbers in the 200's. Let me know if you have any more pics of stores, I'm trying to make a collection of photos of all the big bear stores I can get. (Datrain021)
I just checked the list and #69 was 2801 N. High Street.. I can scan this 2 page document store list (it has manager and store director names on it! for anyone that wants it... Did you guys use the NCR 7000 POS/Checkout System? We used the one from #260 in my resale store I had for awhile in Dublin, and it worked great. JaredCMH 21:47, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure which NCR we used at #212, but I know it was an older system (older than the store itsel) from the 1980's. On average we had one register broken every few weeks. Althoug from my perspective, the system improved greatly when they added the 'you could have saved' part to the receipt, as I no longer had to spend 10 minutes going through the ad and figuring out how much we owed the customer. Also, I'll take a copy of that store list, with any other big bear stuff you might have.(datrain021)
Was the Harts location in Ashland, KY ever a Big Bear or Big Bear Plus store? I noticed Ashland was listed as a Big Bear location, but now it's been taken off the list! Thanks. The Punk 15:24, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure, i know it was a Harts location, and wasnt a Big Bear in the 2000's. It probably wasnt ever a Big Bear, but it could have been. Its currently a Krogers store. (See harts on wiki)
Store 270 in Newark wan't a Big Bear Plus. It also wasn't technically in Newark, but was in Heath, but that's just quibbling.
It was a mini plus. I tried to delete the mini pluses from the list but another guy put them back on. In terms of calling it Newark, I think it was just marketing- going with the lager maket, but if you have info saying it was called Heath Big Bear Id change it to that.
Is there anyone out there that used to work at a Big Bear Plus? I was wondering what the division of sales was in each dept, especially in furniture, garden center, and other things not found in a normal big bear store.
Looking around I found a Big Bear Supermarket in Decatur, GA, a Big Bear Foods in Atlanta, GA, and Big Bear Food Mart in Canada. Do they have any relation to the Big Bear in this article or that their similar names one of those quirks that happen?-- 2606:A000:131D:4413:7804:982C:5DD7:96E8 ( talk) 02:48, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
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BetacommandBot ( talk) 06:06, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
Two editors have been reverting each other for days now regarding whether the list of former store locations should be included. I have protected the page to ensure this gets discussed here; the current version is not endorsed by me. I have suggested some possible ways to compromise, such as by listing the number of stores that were in each municipality/community, and/or giving information on the most important stores (the first, the largest, the last), but these are only suggestions; I voice no further opinion on the matter. But I do expect it to be discussed and discussed here. Postdlf ( talk) 15:18, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
look -- if you read back in the discussion, I actually have an internal document from the company that listed all the stores, with store manager names included see the entry of 23 November 2006. This is the basis for the list. How would we like to "verify" this document and end this nikpicking adventure for SchuminWeb? 98.28.197.0 ( talk) 13:54, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
While “All we did was listen” was an ad campaign, it was an ill fated one. With conditions at the stores degrading, Phil Hawkins ok’d the “ All we did was listen” campaign. The irony, conditions at the stores accelerated downward. One Columbus wag said “People complained, Hawkins and his corporate undertakers paid no attention. In effect, all they did was listen, and then they continued to siphon money from the bottom line.” ClevelandExPat ( talk) ClevelandExPat ( talk) 00:04, 16 February 2023 (UTC)