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The A&P supermarket chain--once the country's largest retailer--is on the verge of going out of business. (A&P owns the Superfresh, Waldbaum's, Pathmark, Food Basics, and Food Emporium chains as well.)
There hasn't been an A&P around here for 50 years, but I do remember them from my childhood--in particular, that delicious aroma of fresh-ground beans in the coffee aisle.
We haven't had a A&P for years how. Miss the Ann Page can vegetables which were only grade A in a can then. But I have to say the HEB stores are overall better for my taste.
I worked at one when a teen for about four years thru high school. The family who owned most shares had son who sold stocks because he had losses in other investments as I recall when first closings came. At one time as I recall the largest grocery chain in the country. I left in like 67 when attending college when first one then second local store closed. That was when Safeway started great expansion and became largest as I recall. I do remember A&P had real buying power. One area in Louisiana grew black diamond water melons and peaches. Each spring A& P bought the entire crop in that area. When lunch came the produce manager would cut a melon that had chilled in Cooler. It was cut on metal toop table over a drain because the juice just flowed out over table. We sold the peach by crate and when you walked in front door that was what you smelt immediately. In evening Ann Page baked items delivered in morning was shifted to day- old table. Next evening any employee could take home any thing left.
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That is where we shopped when I was a kid 60 years ago.
