Tag: take and bake pizza

  • Giacobbinos Take Bake Pizza Review

    Giacobbinos Take Bake Pizza Review Although I have seen these in Chicagoland groceries for some time, I’ve been reluctant to try Giacobbinos, at $13 I thought that was a little spendy for a take and bake pie. At last, the local Jewel-Osco chain had a BOGO on them last week, so greedy pizza monster that […]

  • Jewel Brand Take & Bake Pizza

    Tried another Chicago area frozen pizza, tho this one wasn’t frozen, it was ‘fresh” in the deli section of the Jewel Grocery.  Jewel is the Chicago area brand for SuperValu, which also owns Albertsons, Cub, Lucky, Save-a-Lot and others. SuperValu itself was the successor of a company started by Hugh Harrison, in 1870, as a […]

  • Winco Fresh Pizza

    Winco, is the evolution of a grocery chain started in Boise, ID over 40 years ago. Under the original founders, Winco operated under various names like Waremart, and also operated outlets of Minneapolis-based Cub Foods. An ESOP (employee share ownership plan) was effected, and control was transferred from the founders to the ESOP; stores were […]

  • Home Cookin’ – Wal Mart Marketside Pizza

    Wandering around Wal Mart in the middle of the night, I was looking at their fresh ‘take and bake’ pizza lines, and noting the relative value of the size/weight for the price, compared with other fresh or frozen pizzas. The Wal-Mart Marketside Brand 12” Ultimate Meat Pizza, goes for $5.00, and tops the scale at […]