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.