Older A&P Food Stores
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		Atlanta, GA	Atlanta, GA
Typical Colonial-Style Store
Newer A&P Food Stores Click on images below to enlarge:
2008 - Lodi, NJ Source:  Carl Cestaro	2008 - Little Falls, NJ Source:  Carl Cestaro	2008 - Little Falls, NJ Source:  Carl Cestaro	2008 - Upper Montclair, NJ Source:  Carl Cestaro
			Hoboken, NJ

A&P Ads
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1959	1966	1966	1967	1976
1977	1977		2007

Older A&P Brand Products
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Jane Parker Brand		Ann Page Spices
Our Own Brand Tea		Sultana Peanut Butter
			A&P Yukon Club Soda
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A&P Eight O'Clock Coffee Click on images below to enlarge:
Coffee Factory In-Store Coffee Shop
A&P Promotional Items, Toys, Etc. Click on images below to enlarge:
1960's Paper Bag	2008 Plastic Bag Source:  Carl Cestaro	Coffee Mugs	Needlebook Source:  Carl Cestaro		Stock Certificate
A&P Trucks	A&P SuperFresh Trucks	A&P Toy Trucks	A&P Toy Trucks Source:  Carl Cestaro		Matchbook Source:  Carl Cestaro

1924 - Farmer Jack is founded when Russian immigrant Tom Borman opens a neighborhood grocery store named Tom's Quality
          Meats in Detroit, MI.
1927 - Tom's brother Al opens his own grocery store on Detroit's east side.  The brothers eventually form a partnership.
1945 - The brothers split up their partnership.
1955 - The brothers form another partnership (Borman Food Stores Inc) under the name Food Fair markets.
1959 - Borman Food Stores become a publicly held company with the Borman brothers retaining a controlling interest in the
          company.  The sale of stock fuels Borman's
          purchase of State Super Markets.
1966 - The Farmer Jack name is born when the company opens 3 suburban shopping centers which contain supermarkets, gas
          stations, car washes, garden supply stores and discount stores.
1987 - The company was struggling to keep its stores open amid a strike by clerks and cashiers.  The company eventually
          buys out their contract.
1989 - A & P acquires Farmer Jack's 79 stores for $ 76 million.
1994 - All A&P stores in the Detroit metro area are renamed Farmer Jack.
2004 - Ten Farmer Jack stores are converted to A & P's Food Basics banner.
2005 - A deal by A & P to sell its Farmer Jack stores to Spartan Stores fell through and A & P retains ownership.
2007 - A & P closes all remaining Farmer Jack stores and exits the Detroit market.

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			Source:  A&P 1968 - Gross Pointe Woods, MI Source: Gross Point Woods Historical Society

1995 - The company opens its first Food Basics Store in Canada.
2001 - A & P brings the Food Basics format to the U.S. with the opening of a store in Passaic, NJ.
2004 - Ten Farmer Jack stores in Michigan are converted to the Food Basics banner and format.
2005 - The converted Farmer Jack stores are closed.  A & P operates 11 U.S. Food Basics stores in NJ, NY and PA.
2006 - A & P revived Food Basics with a prototype store in Glassboro, NJ.

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2008 Wallington, NJ Source:  Carl Cestaro

2008 Wallington, NJ Source:  Carl Cestaro

1929 - Kohl's Food Stores is founded by Max Kohl in Milwaukee, WI.
1960's - Kohl's is Wisconsin's largest supermarket chain with 48 stores in southern Wisconsin.
1962 - Max Kohl launches Kohl's Department Stores
1970 - Kohl's Food Stores is acquired by Britian's Brown & Williamson.
1972 - Kohl's Department Stores is acquired by Brown & Williamson.
1983 - A & P acquires Kohl's Food Stores from Brown & Williamson.
2003 - Madison, WI area Kohl's Food Stores are sold to Roundy's.  A & P closes its remaining 23 Kohl's Foods Stores
          and exits the Milwaukee market.

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1982 - A & P launches its Sav-A-Center discount supermarket format.  Many of the New York area stores it purchased from
          Stop & Shop and switched to this format.
1990's - Most of A & P's former Stop & Shop stores are rebranded to A & P.
2005 - Many Sav-A-Center locations were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
2005 - A & P operates Sav-A-Center stores in Louisiana and Mississippi.

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Chalmette, LA			New Orleans, LA
A&P Sav-A-Center Stores Damaged By Hurricane Katrina

1919 - Louis Daitch opens a dairy in New York.
1955 - Daitch Crystal Dairies (34 stores in NYC, Long Island and CT) merges with Shopwell Foods (18 stores in Westchester
          County, NY) supermarket chain.
1962 - Store count peaks with 103 stores in New York area.
1965 - Shopwell discontinues issuing trading stamps.
1970 - Company attempts to launch a chain of convenience stores named Shop-Quick.
1973 - Daitch changes its name to Shopwell.
1974 - Shopwell ventures into Massachusetts and Vermont with the opening of 7 stores.
1976 - Shopwell sells its Massachusetts and Vermont stores at a $ 800,000.00 loss.
1979 - Shopwell opens its first upscale The Food Emporium store.
1983 - The company is down to 55 Stores (43 Shopwell, 17 The Food Emporium).
1984 - Shopwell opens a One Stop Shop warehouse format store and closes it the same year.
1985 - Shopwell loses $ 3.4 million on sales of $ 464 million.
1986 - Company is acquired by A & P.  A & P keeps The Food Emporium name and format and renames Shopwell
          stores as A & P.

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1982 - The company launches the SuperFresh banner.
2003 - The company changes its Louisiana SuperFresh stores to Sav-A-Center.

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2005 - New Logo Source:  A&P		Lumberton, NJ		2002 Arbutus, MD Source:  DC Grocery
	Former A&P Colonial-Style Store

1986 - The company acquires New York based Shopwell, which includes 25 upscale supermarkets named The Food Emporium.
2006 - A & P continues to operate stores under The Food Emporium Banner.

Store located under the Queensborough Bridge in New York.

1904 - Waldbaum's is founded by Israel Waldbaum in Brooklyn, NY.
1970's - Waldbaum's expands from its New York roots into Southern New England using the banner "Waldbaums Foodmart".
1970's - Waldbaum's store count is over 160.
1986 - Waldbaum's is acquired by A & P.
2005 - A & P operates 76 stores under the Waldbaum's banner.  Waldbaum's launches online shopping.

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	2008 - Delivering to an A&P in Little Falls, NJ Source:  Carl Cestaro

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