What REALLY Happened to A&P? (The Grocery Giant That Vanished)

In 1930 the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company ran more than fifteen thousand stores and was the largest retailer in the world. Seventeen states taxed chain stores, Congress tried to tax A&P out of existence, and a federal judge in Danville, Illinois convicted the company and its owners of restraint of trade. This is the story of the economy store, the Eight O'Clock coffee plants, the anti-chain-store movement, the antitrust case, the W.E.O. price war and the two bankruptcies that ended it in 2015, with sources for every date and figure. In this episode: 00:00 - Intro 00:37 - The Three Thousand Dollar Experiment 02:17 - The Grocer That Owned the Factory 04:06 - The Law Written to Kill the Chain 05:39 - Beaten by a Man Who Used to Work There 07:11 - The Government Asked for Seven Companies 08:54 - The Price War It Started Itself 10:45 - Outro Which of these do you remember seeing on TV? Tell us in the comments. More episodes:    / @pulledfromtv