The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea: Boxed And Costco Have Their Roots In A 1970s New Jersey A&P Store

In the 1970s, the venerable The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P) was losing market share. While Safeway expanded in the West and enjoyed the benefits of population growth there, A&P had a bit of a problem: It was focused on the East Coast, where population wasn't growing all that fast. To try to [...]