Talk:Giant Food (Landover)

Why is this an article?

What is the possible reason why this particular giant foods warrants a Wikipedia article?Frithjh 07:30, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

It's its own article because it was its own separate company with its own history and because it still remains its owner banner. What do you suggest merging it with? --Captadam 13:08, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

I think that a little history of the articles on Giant Food would explain a lot here. Originally, we had two articles: Giant Food and Martin's Food Markets. The former described ALL operations known as Giant Food (Carlisle, Landover, and the unrelated ones). The latter described Giant-Carlisle's Martin's operation. Some discussion ensued, and the result was that Giant Food was kind of sloppy, and Martin's Food Markets was basically the same as Giant-Carlisle, just under a different nameplate. So we did some merging and splitting. We split up Giant Food, spinning the section on Giant-Carlisle into Giant Food of Carlisle, Pennsylvania and Giant-Landover into Giant Food of Landover, Maryland. While they're both presently owned by Ahold, you see, they had different origins, and are still operated as separate chains (note that my Martin's bonuscard does not work at a Giant-Landover store). Then the Martin's Food Markets article was merged into Giant Food of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, since it's basically just a nameplate change. So that's why Giant-Landover is a separate article. SchuminWeb (Talk) 18:34, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

I think that Giant Food LLC still uses the name Super G: http://www.hoovers.com/giant-food/--ID__11979--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml. Anacreon 21 February 2007

The article states that the chain is "often referred to as Giant Food of Landover." which does not appear to be true. The parent company, Ahold refers to them as "Giant-Landover" to distinguish them from "Giant-Carlisle". If you google "Giant Food of Landover" you will find articles referring to "Giant Food" of Landover, Maryland rather than "Giant Food of Landover" Giant-Landover would be a better choice for the article name. Toddstreat1 18:15, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Starbucks

While I still disagree with the inclusion of Starbucks in the header as being not common enough at Giant, I did appreciate the cited source. As a result, I did work it into the article in the "History" section. SchuminWeb (Talk) 00:20, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot 21:40, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

History section removed

The large "History" section has been fully removed with the exception of two cited passages (which were placed in the lead for now), and the removed text is now located at Talk:Giant-Landover/History. Basically, this was all unsourced, and potentially original research. Once we get good, strong citations for this information, we can restore it, but for now, it's got to go. SchuminWeb (Talk) 00:11, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

And a little look at Highbeam Research says that we will get sources for what will likely be a new section. SchuminWeb (Talk) 06:48, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

This page on their website should be useful in creating a history section. Giant Food of Landover About Us Page crazzycorbe (talk) 14:37, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

"Giant-MD" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Giant-MD and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 December 14 § Giant-MD until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. MB 03:25, 14 December 2022 (UTC)