The Great A P And The Struggle For Small Business In America

Author : Everest Media
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 58 pages
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Release : 2022-03-05T22:59:00Z
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781669350781

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Summary of Marc Levinson's The Great A&P And The Struggle For Small Business In America by Everest Media Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 In September 1946, federal judge Walter C. Lindley ruled that George L. Hartford, the patriarch of the wealthy Hartford family, and other AP executives had conspired to break the Sherman Antitrust Act. #2 The Great Atlantic Pacific Tea Company was the largest retailer in the world, and its influence stretched from coast to coast. #3 The Hartfords were an unlikely pair. George L. Hartford was the company’s cautious leader, while John A. Hartford was its aggressive leader. They were a formidable team. #4 The Great Atlantic Pacific Company was the center of both men’s lives. Neither ever worked anywhere else, and they treated the company as their family.

Author : Marc Levinson
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0809051435

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The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America by Marc Levinson Pdf

One of The Wall Street Journal's Best Non fiction Books of 2011. 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 sixteen thousand 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.

Author : Avis H. Anderson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0738510386

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A & P by Avis H. Anderson Pdf

In 1859, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, known everywhere as A&P, began as a mail-order business located at 31 Vesey Street in downtown Manhattan. In 1925, A&P operated more than thirteen thousand grocery stores nationwide, with more than forty thousand employees. By 1950, approximately ten cents out of every dollar spent on food in the United States passed over A&P counters. A&P: The Story of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company tells the story of how cofounder George Huntington Hartford and his sons John and George brought A&P to a popularity with consumers that few companies have ever achieved. This stunning collection of vintage photographs shows such nostalgic scenes as the elegant early stores, their gleaming window displays, and the red horse-drawn delivery wagons with the A&P logo emblazoned on their sides. Shoppers choose from rows of colorful merchandise and fresh produce; uniformed storekeepers make change from ornate registers; and the founder's son tastes A&P's Eight O'Clock coffee. A&P is still an industry leader, and A&P: The Story of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company shows why, from the Hartford family's legacy to the generations of shoppers who depend on A&P for fair prices and quality food. This is the history of the supermarket where America grew up shopping.

Author : Jon Steinman
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781550927009

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Grocery Story by Jon Steinman Pdf

Hungry for change? Put the power of food co-ops on your plate and grow your local food economy. Food has become ground-zero in our efforts to increase awareness of how our choices impact the world. Yet while we have begun to transform our communities and dinner plates, the most authoritative strand of the food web has received surprisingly little attention: the grocery store—the epicenter of our food-gathering ritual. Through penetrating analysis and inspiring stories and examples of American and Canadian food co-ops, Grocery Story makes a compelling case for the transformation of the grocery store aisles as the emerging frontier in the local and good food movements. Author Jon Steinman: Deconstructs the food retail sector and the shadows cast by corporate giants Makes the case for food co-ops as an alternative Shows how co-ops spur the creation of local food-based economies and enhance low-income food access. Grocery Story is for everyone who eats. Whether you strive to eat more local and sustainable food, or are in support of community economic development, Grocery Story will leave you hungry to join the food co-op movement in your own community.

Author : Matt Stoller
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501183089

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Goliath by Matt Stoller Pdf

A startling look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism transformed American politics, resulting in the emergence of populism and authoritarianism, the fall of the Democratic Party—while also providing the steps needed to create a new democracy. Americans once had a coherent and clear understanding of political tyranny, one crafted by Thomas Jefferson and updated for the industrial age by Louis Brandeis. A concentration of power, whether in the hands of a military dictator or a JP Morgan, was understood as autocratic and dangerous to individual liberty and democracy. This idea stretched back to the country’s founding. In the 1930s, people observed that the Great Depression was caused by financial concentration in the hands of a few whose misuse of their power induced a financial collapse. They drew on this tradition to craft the New Deal. In Goliath, Matt Stoller explains how authoritarianism and populism have returned to American politics for the first time in eighty years, as the outcome of the 2016 election shook our faith in democratic institutions. It has brought to the fore dangerous forces that many modern Americans never even knew existed. Today’s bitter recriminations and panic represent more than just fear of the future, they reflect a basic confusion about what is happening and the historical backstory that brought us to this moment. The true effects of populism, a shrinking middle class, and concentrated financial wealth are only just beginning to manifest themselves under the current administrations. The lessons of Stoller’s study will only grow more relevant as time passes. Building upon his viral article in The Atlantic, “How the Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul,” Stoller illustrates in rich detail how we arrived at this tenuous moment, and the steps we must take to create a new democracy.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822038357778

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Adding to Uncertainty by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : PURD:32754078214032

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Potential Impact of the Grand Gulf Nuclear Powerplant on Small Businesses and Farmers by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business Pdf

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1300 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116494287

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Author : Ralph Blanchard
Publisher : Ralph Blanchard
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781439214589

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Creating Wealth with a Small Business by Ralph Blanchard Pdf

This invaluable business resource will help aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners understand the risks and potential rewards of starting, buying, or managing a small business.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1322 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015064539417

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Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Education
ISBN : MINN:30000004837476

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1664 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Legislative hearings
ISBN : UCAL:B3603616

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Select Committee on Small Business by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Chicago tribune
ISBN : UOM:39015066388581

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Chicago Tribune Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : William I. Walsh
Publisher : Lyle Stuart
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0818403829

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The Rise and Decline of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company by William I. Walsh Pdf

Traces the history of A&P from its founding in 1859 to the present, and analyzes the managerial mistakes which led to its near collapse

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1462 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Government publications
ISBN : OSU:32437010623292

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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications by Anonim Pdf