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I'm not some newbie but who was A&P? Never heard of them. Regardless I'd disagree about the reach of Sears vs. Amazon. They kinda look the same as a retailer
by r00fus 6y ago
I'm not some newbie but who was A&P? Never heard of them.
Regardless I'd disagree about the reach of Sears vs. Amazon. They kinda look the same as a retailer scope (Sears owned phone-order, Amazon monopolized online), but that's where the analogy ends.
- cafard 6y agoAtlantic and Pacific is what it stood for. Wikipedia says it shut down in 2015.
- mikestew 6y agoOn top of the fact that it's probably been fifty years since I've stepped foot in an A&P grocery. They were hardly a monopoly even then. I'm truly surprised that they were still a going entity in 2015.
- perl4ever 6y agoI don't think I've ever been in one and couldn't have told you what states they were in. Nevertheless I heard of them somewhere, so I don't think they're the most obscure chain.
- mikestew 6y ago"Not obscure" is a loooooong way from "monopoly", which was the original argument somewhere upthread. Wikipedia says that at their peak, A&P had 10% of U. S. grocery sales. That's not even iPhone territory, let alone monopoly.
- bsder 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Atlantic_%26_Pacific_Tea_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Atlantic_%26_Pacific... > In 1930, A&P, now the world's largest retailer, reached $2.9 billion in sales ($44.4 billion today) with 16,000 stores.