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  • The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America, Second Edition

  • By: Marc Levinson
  • Narrated by: William Hughes
  • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (27 ratings)

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The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America, Second Edition

By: Marc Levinson
Narrated by: William Hughes
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From modest beginnings as a tea shop, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company became the largest retailer in the world. It was a juggernaut, with nearly 16,000 stores. But its explosive growth made it a mortal threat to mom-and-pop grocery stores across the nation. Main Street fought back tooth and nail, leading the Hoover, Roosevelt, and Truman administrations to investigate the Great A&P. In a remarkable court case, the government pressed criminal charges against the company for selling food too cheaply - and won.

In The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America, the acclaimed historian Marc Levinson tells the story of a struggle between small business and big business that tore America apart. George and John Hartford took over their father’s business and reshaped it again and again, turning it into a vertically integrated behemoth that paved the way for every big-box retailer to come. George demanded a rock-solid balance sheet; John was the marketer-entrepreneur who led A&P through seven decades of rapid changes. Together, they set the stage for the modern consumer economy by turning an archaic retail industry into a highly efficient system for distributing food at low cost.

©2019 Marc Levinson (P)2019 Blackstone Publishing
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“Mr. Levinson has written an absorbing history of one company’s amazing rise - and what such success means in a nation with conflicting ideals about big business. It is more than a rich business history; it is a mirror to our own conflicting wants and visions of who and what we should be.” (The New York Times)

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