Talk:Piggly Wiggly

message: Why was the paragraph "Piggly Wiggly in Popular Culture" removed?  I think that is a significent change for the worse.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tbonge (talk • contribs) 16:57, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's because these paragraphs are a magnet for marginally relevant or irrelevant junk in Wikipedia articles, such as character so-and-so in such-and-such movie said "Piggly Wiggly" at time index 1:43:02. Who cares?—QuicksilverT @ 19:38, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: In popular culture?

message: 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)
replies: text: Not any more.  The entire chain closed in late August and early September 2010. PW Markets' founders Joey Franco and his wife Florence Franco died in 2003 and 2002, respectively, and the business was unable to compete with non-union retail markets. At the moment, the Web URL still exists, but it just shows a black screen and the page title is "Closed".  To see the store's logo, you'll need to cruise over to the Internet Archive, where the site was last collected in August 2008. The PW Markets logo is clearly quite different from Piggly Wiggly's and doesn't suggest that there was ever a connection.  Since PW Markets was founded in 1942, it is possible that they were franchisees of Piggly Wiggly Corporation, which allowed them to run the Joey Franco's PW Markets in a self-service format under the patents held by Piggly Wiggly. —QuicksilverT @ 20:01, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: PW Markets

message: * Anyone have an idea of the history of the pig logo design? --Dystopos 22:09, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pig logo

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  Needs sources 

message: I think that the history section of this article should be listed for having too many "Peacock Terms."  Reading this sounds like an advertisement for the company rather than a non-stilted informative article.  There are too may declarative proclamations rather than mere factual reporting of the company.  Instead of "Piggly Wiggly was the first to price mark every item in the store."  Perhaps the section should read:  "According to the filed patent.. or Piggly Wiggly claims to have been the first to price mark items...."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jrucker (talk • contribs) 04:20, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: 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)
:"You all"?  Seriously?  Not "y'all"? B7T 12:50, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Jingle from the 1980s

message: Today is Piggly Wiggly's 90th birthday! -- Toytoy 03:10, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Today 

message: As  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)
replies: text: I think that I have now removed all text that was duplicated from pigglywiggly.com —JeremyA (talk) 00:43, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problems 

message: Thanks to all contributors. Maikel (talk) 18:36, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Swell article

message: I came here to learn where this really bizarre company name came from.  Wikipedia for the first time in six years has failed me.  Shame on you. Huw Powell (talk) 05:31, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I too, came to this page for the same reason, and left disappointed.  Does anyone know why Saunders decided the best name for his new grocery store would be "Piggly Wiggly"? 172.129.244.96 (talk) 16:19, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Piggly Wiggly's website has this to say about the name: Saunders' reason for choosing the intriguing name Piggly Wiggly remains a mystery; he was curiously reluctant to explain its origin. One story is that he saw from a train window several little pigs struggling to get under a fence, and the rhyming name occurred to him then. Someone once asked him why he had chosen such an unusual name for his organization, and Saunders' reply was, "So people will ask that very question." He wanted and found a name that would be talked about and remembered. Gobonobo T C 19:55, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: Anyone have any more info about the patenting of the self-service concept? How long did this last and how successful was it? Clearly it is widespread now and the article says straight away that other shops copied the idea. Jules (talk) 11:10, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Patent? 

message: I grew up in South Texas and my parents regularly shopped at Piggly Wiggly groceries when I was small in the early 1950s.  They were pretty much gone by the time I left high school in the mid-1960s, though.  By chance I emigrated to South Africa in 1981 and lived there for many years.  I was astonished to find Piggly Wiggly grocery stores in Pretoria where I was living.  In traveling through the country, I would occasionally run across other Piggly Wiggly grocery stores.  They reminded me very much of the early 1950s stores from my childhood.
I see now that the grocery stores chain seems to have morphed into a general food service enterprise with emphasis on restaurants and coffee shops since I left in the mid-1990s, though.
http://www.pigglywiggly.co.za/
Plaasjaapie (talk) 00:29, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Piggly Wiggly in Africa 

message: The picture of the location of the Piggly Wigglys is wrong; there are Pigs in Illinois and Wisconsin. http://www.shopthepig.com/
206.225.133.128 (talk) 03:13, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Piggly Wiggly in WI, IL 

message: With the closest retail location four states away, New Hampshire would seem a very unlikely choice for the location of the company headquarters. 184.0.226.135 (talk) 03:19, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why New Hampshire? 

message: The whole, just in time and toyota production system that has revolutionized manufacturing was inspired a piggly wiggly  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.66.79.142 (talk) 10:22, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Toyota production system and Piggly Wiggly 

message: The new url is www.pigglywigglystores.com/ 2601:CA:8500:29:5500:4279:9A1F:2CD9 (talk) 11:14, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Web site url has been changed. 

message: On 24 October 2022, a Piggy Wiggly store in Greenvile, North Carolina had to temporarily shut down after a rumour had spread that a YouTuber Mr Beast was going to buy out the whole store, it left the store in mayhem after he did not show up.
Mr Beast had allegedly replied to Keemstar, another YouTuber that he intended to go to a Piggy Wiggly store and discreetly pay for some customers' groceries, he also asked for the store manager's permission the day before. However, the store manager allegedly leaked the information to the employees and announced to people that Mr Beast will pay for everyone's groceries, citing that the manager was taking advantage of the kindness.
Customers littered the store, throwing anything they want into their shopping carts, causing mayhem in the store. After learning that Mr Beast was unable to come due to some security issues, the customers left items messed up in the store, they too were taking advantage of Mr Beast's generosity. KieronKN (talk) 18:16, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy 

message: Would someone be willing to edit the map? According to the map on their own website, they no longer have stores in Minnesota or Missouri, and they now have a store in New York and a couple in Texas. I don't understand how to edit SVG images; therefore, I'm wondering if someone else would be willing to do it. 
https://www.pigglywiggly.com/store-locations/
Thanks. Pillowcrow (talk) 16:14, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Im also noticing this issue but similarly don't have the capability to edit SVGs. I'm sure someone from commons could do it, though.  BhamBoi (talk) 06:11, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  US Locations Map