RIP A & P SUPERMARKETS. GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN.

We had an A&P in my hometown, Whiteville, NC, for years. Other Chains opened and closed but still A&P was the best

I still miss them. And the store brands Ann Page and Jane Parker delivered pretty high quality at reasonable prices.

I remember A & P in my previous lifetime. The world has changed a lot. SO memorable.

I remember there was an A&P on my way home from work in the 1950s. They sold Eight o clock coffee beans which people would grind in the store. There aren`t too many aromas better than coffee being ground. There was a bread bakery a few blocks from there and the aromas coming from there were terrific also.

Ahhhhh I miss A&P when I was a kid! From what I remember during the 90s going shopping with my mom and getting a cart full of groceries, getting samples and so on was always a fun time and then it didn’t cost hundreds to get food for a couple days! It was just a better company and being its HQ was based outta my home state of NJ it felt like it was our home brand!

My grandfather worked for A&P until retirement. I only discovered this while going through old paper work at his place after he passed away this year. He didn't like to talk about his life or the past much, I wish I'd pressed him a little more for stories while he was still around.

Eric C Productions As a Kid we always shopped at A&P and In later Years I worked for Them I was Proud to have worked for them. I spent 10 years trying to get a job with them and finally did. Grew up on Ann Page and Jane Parker stuff,, also Captains Johns sea food Chalder.

I'll say I remember A&P, worked mostly third shift in Charlotte NC from 1983 to 1988 at Cotswold mall, we felt like family

As a little kid in Chicago, we had an A&P that was walking distance from my house, it was also one of 4 grocery stores my folks & I would go shopping at on a Saturday

I worked for A&P for 13 years - from 1984 to 1997. I started as a bagger/cart boy and worked my way down to store manager. I worked in five different stores around the Baltimore metro area and I have to say it was really a terrible, soul sucking job due to the crappy upper management and ownership. As a store manager you were constantly hammered to cut hours and encouraged to treat the workers like disposable pieces of crap. When I was hired in 1984 I started out on the 2nd tier of the UFCW contract at around $7 to $10 an hour with full benefits. And the raises were substantial and came pretty quickly. When they negotiated the 3rd tier of the contract the pay and benefits were terrible and no one was allowed to work more than 29 hours except the existing full time employees. It became a revolving door for the help and service really suffered. Management didn't care, they just tried to squeeze everybody for more and push the old-timers out. Eventually I just had enough and walked out one day and never looked back. It's a shame too because they had some great private label products and could have been competitive but the ownership and upper management were arrogant and short-sighted. I'm not surprised they went out of business.

worked for them for 12 years!

My after school job was stock boy/bag boy at the Brewton, AL A&P in the mid 70's. They paid better than other stores in the area, I think because they were unionized and the other southern based stores were not. Anyway, I remember I would have to stock the shelves until they needed someone to come up front to bag, which meant we were constantly on the run. Back then, they used the little manual bells to call us up (ding-ding-ding). When I went to bed I would be exhausted, but then I would dream that I heard the ding-ding-ding and bolt awake again to run bag groceries.

We had them here then they changed to Farmer Jacks in 1990s after they bought the Farmer Jack chain

When I was growing up on Long Island, NY in the 1950s/1960s my mom did all her food shopping at our local A & P. Many of the staff there became friends to her over the years. When I was 18 my mom died very suddenly during a heart surgery and I remember my dad actually going to the store in person to tell the workers there this news.

Of course I remember A&P! I worked there for 3 years in the late 80’s. I loved that store. Then it became Farmer Jack in the early 90’s. I have many memories of shopping there with my mother.

I, live in Detroit, Michigan. I, was born in 1957 and I grew up on A&P. I, remember when the Chatham Complete Food Centers closed permanently, and A&P bought some of the old Chatham Complete Food Centers Stores, and rebranded the stores to A&P, and after buying the Farmer Jack Supermarket Chain, and rebranded the old Chatham Complete Food Centers /A&P to Farmer Jack Supermarket. I, also remember when A&P, became A&P WEO, then A&P, became Food Basics, a Warehouse Food Store. The, inner city A&P/Farmer Jack Supermarkets went out of business, and Closed Permanently, became Sav-a-Lot Food Stores. The, A&P Stores in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and Northern Lower Peninsula became IGA Foodliner Stores. Except, for 1 A&P Store in West Branch ,Michigan became a Sav-a-Lot Food Store in the old A&P Colonial Style A&P Food Store. This, is best A&P History about A&P's Michigan Division.

We had a A&P store in Clinton Iowa we always went with I really like going there it was in the 50's and the 60's the people there were very nice

I loved our A&P that was in a mall,lasted about 8 years. It had the freshest veggies & the sweetest staff. God bless you A&P,miss you much !

Used to work in the Produce department back in college. Fond memories!

I Certainly Do...I Remember When They Sadly Closed The Last And Only A&P We Had...I Remember Shopping There One Last Time On A Sunday Afternoon In 1982~Wishing I Had Money To Purchase Something Before They Closed...Quite Sad Indeed...

I remember the coffee grocers at each check out station, and 8 o'clock cofee. Another example of the government harassment of business.

My father was a meatcutter for A&P in Columbus.Ohio back in the 70s.

I loved A&P because of 8 O'Clock Coffee and the grinder. You should do a story about 8 O'Clock coffee.

Yes I remember A&P., there staff use to follow me around the store assuming that i would steal something, as a kid. They were predice as hell this left a scar on me. I'm glad they closed ,good for then

WEO was short for Where Economy Originates, and had nothing to do with warehouses, mentioned at 8:43. See this at 10:35. Great video; thanks for this.

Some of these stores in this video i’ve actually shopped in.I remember well,the Pathmark store in Clifton,New Jersey and the A&P store in Little Falls.I was there the last day both stores closed.Great video!.😎

i worked for them in 1990.the coffee grinding machine sounded like somebody was grinding gears in a manual transmission my dad a mechanic would say grind me a pound please that referred to the gears lmao.

If hedge fund tycoon and Mets owner Steve Cohen had purchased A&P in 2015, he would’ve saved the company from bankruptcy.

I fondly remember A&P.They were at one time the biggest grocery chain in New Jersey.The had stores everywhere, and at one time almost every town had one,and some towns had multiple stores.Thank you for this upload,Eric!.😎

I worked for them from 2004 until their final bankruptcy and liquidation in 2015.

When I was a kid in the 90’s our neighborhood grocery store was an A&P (just outside of New Orleans). When I was in high school I worked at that store just as it became a Sav-A-Center. I think Rouses later bought them out and eventually closed that store due to its relatively small size.

enjoy your videos.

My first job was at the A&P in Forestville CT! I will always remember my years there fondly!

When I was little they still had A& P stores all over the place and I remember the coffee grinder for the Eight O'Clock coffee, and a couple weeks ago I saw Eight O'clock coffee where I shop and I couldn't believe it because I didn't know they still made it. Of course the store didn't have a coffee grinder and the coffee was already ground up. But I bought some just because it reminded me of my childhood. And it is really good coffee I found out. I'm gonna buy it again.

My Dad worked for A&P for almost 30 years. We had volumes of educational books and a set of Currier & Ives china that were offered as an incentive for customers to shop there every week!

Absolutely the best supermarket of them all in it's best times (up until circa early 1980's). Ours had it's own built in bakery (VERY rare back then), their baked pies were so good that my aunt cheated and used one (in her own pan) to win a prize at the county fair LOL. A&P employees tended to work there for their entire working lives. I noticed quality declining in both the products and the look of the stores beginning in about 1979 or so.

I worked for A&P as a kid in high school in the early 1970's in Flint Michigan. Was a good job at the time.

Yes indeed I remember the A&P in Hancock, MD. When I was a young girl my parents would shop there. I can't remember the exact year, in the 70's, there was a flood and I remember only being able to see the roof of the store from a neighboring bridge. The store was in a low lying area and the flood wiped out that end of town.

I remember this store in Cleveland, OH. Me and my sis thought for sure it could have been named for us: Angie & Pam. I know- we were special. I don't know about my sis but I HATED going into that grocery store. This was the late 70s early 80s when the business was going down hill. I do remember the logo change and the change to a warehouse type grocery store.

Does anyone remember Farmer Jack Supermarket. They were in think only Michigan.

I remembered seeing one in this one town when I was little when I was living in Illinois. It was in Round Lake, Illinois. Last time that I knew in the grocery store was is now Ace Hardware store. I remembered getting off one school bus to the other bus when I was 4 and 5 years old. I don’t remembered when it went out of business. I think my mother went there when I was little.

You have very interesting subject matter.

They had a super fresh in Lansdowne pa still maintaining it across they built a Giant

I miss the competition. We once had A&P, Kroger, Giant Eagle, Foodland, Shop and Save, Thorofare, and Golden Dawn in Pittsburgh, PA. There is a small shopping plaza in Swissvale, PA that had both an A&P AND a Kroger at the same time. The long gone East Hills plaza had both a Giant Eagle and a Golden Dawn. That plaza also had a Zayre.(Good luck finding a modern shopping center of any size with TWO supermarkets!) Today Pittsburgh is DOMINATED by Giant Eagle (with their off shoots "Get-Go" and "Market District") with some Shop and Saves here and there. At least I'm not too far from an Aldi. Giant Eagle used to be famous for its low prices. Once they became dominant, that concept went away and the tend to be the highest priced, LOL.

We had a A&P store in Hornell NY. That closed I think in the early 1980s. Then Super Duper grocery took it over and they closed in 1997. The Salvation Army Thrift Store is there now.

They spent a lot of money buying out the competition and ended up spending too much money in the process which not only closed their stores but also those chains they had bought, I worked there for like a decade starting in 2000, it was still good then, even after I had left one of my co-workers called me back telling me they were opening up a new chain around the time if I wanted to go back and do what he was doing for the new chain, I am glad that even though they were offering way more money than I was making at my new job I didn't take it. The only reason I left originally was to go chase the career I wanted to do so that work didn't feel stressful even though I had a good job there at the corporate offices working on the energy management systems. Thank God that it was because I wasn't chasing money I was not tempted to go back at the time seeing now what happened... I do however feel bad for all my co-workers who were there at the corporate offices, all those people from the stores that used to call me also and I do hope they found something else and hopefully better as I did.

I remember their black label products. I almost always cringed as a child when my dad bought them.

Used to have A&P on Myrtle and Hall years ago

Thanks once again your videos! I am certainly old enough (just turned 60) to remember A&P stores here in St. Louis, MO. In fact, in the 1960's there was a local luminary named Charlotte Peters, who had a show on one of the local channels, and she would do episodes out of A&P stores. It was basically like a long infomercial, but she would have guests on, and she would sing songs, etc. The music was really of the time, think Chuck & Edna's Organ Emporium from SCTV, and you are there. I couldn't have been more than 5 or 6 years old at the time. Also, there was an A&P around the corner from us then, and on Saturdays, when they would air the cereal commercials where they advertised the toys to be found in the boxes, everyone would go there to bust them open open to steal them. The floors in the cereal aisle at A$P was always littered with cereal!

From my childhood in the 1980s until the store closed down during the 2010s, *A&P* (in Pluckemin, New Jersey) was my favorite store to go grocery shopping...most often, with my dad and, sometimes, his parents (my grandparents). Grandma, especially, loved to go there with my dad and me. I miss A&P and my grandma. Both of them are gone (as is my grandfather, who passed in 2018). #Nostalgia #1980s #1990s #2000s *PATHMARK* - that's another grocery store I miss from my childhood days. The one I remember and miss was in Somerville, New Jersey. You see, I had two childhood hometowns because my parents had divorced and lived in separate locations. At the time, my mom lived in Somerville and my dad lived in Peapack. That's why I miss both Pathmark in Somerville and A&P in Pluckemin. Both places were such nostalgic stores to me as the kid I once was.

The one in my city closed down 8 years before I was born. It's a IGA now. Wait, kohl's sold groceries?

I, am a new subscriber to your channel. I, live in Detroit, Michigan. Would, you do a video about the Detroit Based Great Scott!Supermarket Chain. I, remember when I was working for Great Scott!supermarket, and when the Detroit Based Wrigley's Supermarket Chain merged with Great Scott!supermarkets in the early 1970's. Then, Kroger bought the Great Scott!Supermarket Chain.

Yeah my mom and dad went there shopping at midnight too on river Avenue too in williamsport Pennsylvania too usa kh

Used to work at the 1 in Mahwah. Had some certificate from the CEO at the time. Loved working in a grocery store. Lunch was different everyda

A & P, IGA, Super Duper, all lost relics.

There, was a A.&.P in Woodside N.Y On, 53 Rd Street under the, 7 train now It's a Drugstore & more .

I drove a tractor and trailer for these people delivering produce in groceries for 13 1/2 years when they close down in 1996

At the freeze-frame at 10:16, it was Pantry Pride, not Pantry Price. Also, it was Waldbaum's, not Wald-baum. (Just for the record here. Again, great video here.)

Where’d your voice got for the middle part of the video?

A&p the great American and pacific tea company

I worked for them in the Cleveland, Ohio area.

Why exactly did it go out of business?

We lost your voice over in part of the vid, 1980s onwards

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start at 00:58 09:37 12:16

Did you said Long John's Silver will be by the end of October 📲✨👍😇

The post WW2 A&P is arguably the worst managed company in the history of American business.

Do Farmer Jack

Pitiful. Just plain Pitiful!

A&P's troubles really began after repeated hammering by the leftists of the day. (Then as now, those people sought to destroy all that was good as a matter of principle.) In later years A&P truly lost their way, drowning in debt. But the story of their early years is inspirational.