Posted on 07/20/2015 10:54:09 PM PDT by Daffynition
MONTVALE — The Great Atlantic Pacific & Tea Company, which operates about 300 grocery stores in the northeast, filed for bankruptcy Sunday.
The Montvale-based company, known for its A&P branded supermarkets, lists assets and debts of more than $1 billion each in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.
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Inthe early 70s i remember waking to an a and p in a larger, older quonset hut a few blocks away from their home.
Nostalgia Lane with A & P. The first grocery chain, and I remember well the store in the 1950s at Harlem and Madison in Oak Park/Forest Park, Illinois. Didn’t know they were still around.
A&P finally failed because even back in the 1970’s, they couldn’t keep up with the times. Today, supermarkets are more like a Kroger or Safeway....
Thought you had to wait 7 years or is that just individuals?
A&P also was the exclusive carrier of 8 O’Clock Coffee. That was really good coffee. I understand the brand made a comeback a few years ago, but coffee connoisseurs tell me it's not the same.
Back in the day, they were one of the *first* supermarkets in town ....caused quite a flutter, I remember, those wide isles and massive variety of goods, seemed to be a wonderland. My mother loved their coffee.
Ours looked a lot like this....along with Finest's arrival, it pretty much put the era a mom&pop grocery stores on every corner, to an end.
Damn. A too-quick read of the title made me think that AP (Absolute Propaganda) was going under.
No such luck.
Looks as if there a few, still, in Connecticut, in Fairfield county CT....which we not so affectionately call the *Gold Coast* ....where mostly very wealthy NYC commuters live. This surprises me b/c it’s the land of gourmet/specialty shops. Old habits die hard in New England.
I see there are several in NY state up the Hudson Valley.
http://ap.apsupermarket.com/storelocator
It was FINAST (acronym for FIrst NAtional STores) not FINEST. My parents shopped at one every weekend, and they drove fifteen miles away to do it. I remember we drove around to the back of the store to have our trunk loaded up with the purchased groceries that had been conveyor-belted out there for the part time college kid workers to load into your car. My father always tipped them. You didn’t carry the bags out of the store by hand.
Also, it was the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, not the Atlantic Pacific & Tea Company as the author of the article mistakenly wrote.
I see where Stop & Shop are planning on buying out some select locations.
A&P is or was also in Canada. My family and I would see them as we traveled to see relatives in North Bay, Ontario.
My mom obtained several small appliances with those stamps. One is an old electric mixer from about the late 1950s. I inherited that mixer. Not fancy like most of the mixers today, but it still works. Almost solidly stainless steel. Weighs a ton, but it does the job.
My first job was at an A & P in Englewood, NJ. Weeeeeee-O
I remember rA& P. I vaguely recall my mom collecting Green Stamps.
Several years ago the one by me became a Stop & Shop.
Then it was closed an a Super Shop & Shop was built.
In place of the old supermarket became a bargain clothing chain, and a chain that sells things for a home. They closed and if was knocked down. Now it’s just - nothing, .
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