Talk:Piggly Wiggly
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[edit] PW Markets
a few years ago a new supermarket called "PW Market" came up in my neighborhood (in California). A friend of mine from the east coast told me about Piggly Wiggly and said that PW was the same store. We went in to ask the employees what PW stands for, one immediately said "Piggly Wiggly", and another then immediately said it wasn't. My friend and I left before they could agree. Does anyone know if they are in fact the same store, and then should the article be changed to include at least california, and wherever else where there is a PW but not Piggly Wiggly? Or is this just so obviously the same store that I'm making a fool of myself?--CallmeNiel 03:01, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
- I would guess that was Joey Franco's PW Markets "With 9 Locations in the Bay Area" at www.pwmarkets.com. — Reinyday, 21:54, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Pig logo
- Anyone have an idea of the history of the pig logo design? --Dystopos 22:09, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
My great uncle, William Joe Martin, who lived in Neches, TX was a sign painter by trade. His wife who is still living tells me that he designed the pig logo but never received proper credit for it. I have a few photos of him standing next to Piggly Wiggly signs with the pig logo. One sign is on the side of a truck. The pig logo is in the center and "Childs' Piggly Wiggly" is written across the truck. There are also words like "Greater Variety", "Free Parking", "Spotlessly Clean", etc. The date on the back of this photograph is Aug. 1948. Dordello 15:43, 6 January 2007 (UTC)dordello
[edit] Needs sources
Much of this seems to be taken from the Piggly Wiggly web site, but are there other sources? Can someone give them to help make the entry a bit more robust for the casual reader? Oswald Glinkmeyer 18:49, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
- You are right that much of the text appears to be a copy/paste from the Piggly Wiggly website. The issue then is more one of copyright: is the article sufficiently different from the Piggly Wiggly website to not be a copyright violation? I think that at the moment the answer to that question is no, and so the article needs rewriting. However, as for needing more sources, it seems to me that there is little that could be considered controversial in the article and therefore Piggly Wiggly themselves are an ideal source for information. Obviously more sources would improve verifiability, but I think that the more pressing issue is the one of copyright. JeremyA 19:17, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
- When I said "taken" I meant sourced from. I didn't mean actually lifted from the Piggly Wiggly site. I'll have to go look to see how closely it is copied. If it really is a cut and paste, then I would agree we do have a problem. Oswald Glinkmeyer 12:00, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Saunders
I'm working on more history on Saunders.
-- Coriolis
[edit] Jingle from the 1980s
Jingle from the 1980s: "What's the store that gives you more, more of what you're lookin' for? Piggly Wiggly, you all."
-- Fingers-of-Pyrex 13:04, 2005 Apr 20 (UTC)
[edit] Your Piggly Wiggly Stores article
My father and his brothers founded a chain in Omaha, Nebraska named "Hinky Dinky" in about 1929. Shortly thereafter Piggly Wiggly filed a patent infrinement suit, obviously claiming infringement of the patent cited in your "Piggly Wiggly" article. My father told me that the suit was dismissed after the "Hinky Dinky" stores agreed to separate its alternate aisles from the rear wall of the store, thus freeing up the customers to go directly to any spot in the store. If you read the claims in Piggly Wiggly article, you will see that the "Hinky Dinky" alteration wold not infringe the "Piggly Wiggly" patent.
As far as I know the "Hinky Dinky" chain was the first to open up to shoppers a self-service grocery store in this fashion, thus creating gondolas and no longer forcing customers to walk sinuously throught the store. As we all know, the "Hinky Dinky" format is now universal in self-service stores of all sorts.
I would guess that the "Hinky Dinky" format was not patentable as no doubt there were many stores for many years prior laid out in that fashion. I do not know if "Piggly Wiggly filed infringement suits against other retailers, but, as a retired Patent attorney, I do know that its patent was probably valid, but obviously of little value. By the way this is true of many novel ideas which have been patented. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.227.91.29 (talk • contribs).
[edit] Today
Today is Piggly Wiggly's 90th birthday! -- Toytoy 03:10, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Copyright problems
As Wahkeenah (talk • contribs) has pointed out, it seems like over time various parts of the Piggly Wiggly website have been copy/pasted here. The copyrighted text should be found and either substantially rewritten or removed completely. —JeremyA (talk) 22:59, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
