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2015-06-21 Economy

One of America's biggest grocery chains is on the brink of death

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Posted by Fred 2015-06-21 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1765 views ] Top

1 It's time. The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company has been doomed for years. They never could make the move from 1954 supermarket.

Posted by Shipman 2015-06-21 01:53|| 2015-06-21 01:53|| Front Page Top

2 A&P meets S&H ... ah alas, there is no going home.

Posted by Lemuel and Company6787 2015-06-21 07:53|| 2015-06-21 07:53|| Front Page Top

3 Ahhhhhhh Green Stamps. I remember as a kid filling the books every time Mom went to the store. Best thing I ever got was a real dart board with real darts. I was admonished about trying to stick one in my older sister.

Posted by AlanC 2015-06-21 08:43|| 2015-06-21 08:43|| Front Page Top

4 Ahh - my own fond memories of pasting up Green Stamps for my Granny Jessie

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2015-06-21 09:18|| http://www.celiahayes.com 2015-06-21 09:18|| Front Page Top

5 Growing up in rural Alabama it was a real treat to go to the Green Stamp Store. A welcome relief from staring at cows and corn fields all day.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2015-06-21 09:38|| 2015-06-21 09:38|| Front Page Top

6 ...They've been dying for about 40 years now. Put 'em outta their misery.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2015-06-21 10:22|| 2015-06-21 10:22|| Front Page Top

7 American's stop spending money in bad supermarket chain shock.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2015-06-21 10:42|| 2015-06-21 10:42|| Front Page Top

8 A welcome relief from staring at cows and corn fields all day.

Got to be an Alabama joke hidden there somewhere, but I'm not going there.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-06-21 12:12|| 2015-06-21 12:12|| Front Page Top

9 Aww, come on, Besoeker, I need a good laugh.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2015-06-21 13:02|| 2015-06-21 13:02|| Front Page Top

10 @#5: Motto: "The First Listing On The Phonebook of States." (yeah, I stole it this morning.)

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2015-06-21 13:09|| 2015-06-21 13:09|| Front Page Top

11 I'm so old.... my granma bought me my first rifle (Rem Nylon 66) with S&H Green Stamps IN MASSACHUSETTS.....

Posted by Mercutio 2015-06-21 14:36|| 2015-06-21 14:36|| Front Page Top

12 profit margins among grocery stores is surprisingly low, and competition high

Posted by Frank G 2015-06-21 14:37|| 2015-06-21 14:37|| Front Page Top

13 ...till the apparatchiks at the Dept of Agriculture get their hands on redistribution. Wonder which plutocrat has the money to buy that state controlled monopoly.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-06-21 14:47|| 2015-06-21 14:47|| Front Page Top

14 I got a trading stamp as late as 2002, I think it was. In a grocery store on Molokai.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2015-06-21 19:36|| 2015-06-21 19:36|| Front Page Top

15 ZOOOOOOMG, A & P is still around???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-06-21 19:49|| 2015-06-21 19:49|| Front Page Top

16 ZOOOOOOMG, A & P is still around???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-06-21 19:49|| 2015-06-21 19:49|| Front Page Top

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