[Ads-l] Facebookery: "What was the A&P?"

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed May 17 15:47:28 UTC 2017


I wonder who absorbed its less successful counterpart, the Unsanitary Grocery chain.


> On May 17, 2017, at 2:22 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> My father (*1925)  recalled a Sanitary Grocery Store near his Seat Pleasant
> MD home, after he was shown a mysterious family photo of a grocer standing
> in front of such a store. Probably absorbed by Safeway, after New Negro
> Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co., 303 US 552 (1938).  (Not in Wp's "List of
> defunct retailers of the United States")
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