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A&P's first store outside New York City was opened just days after the disaster. The firm rapidly expanded; in 1875 A&P had stores in 16 cities. [12] In 1878, Gilman left the active management of the firm to Hartford. [13] By then, the firm operated 70 lavishly-equipped stores and a mail order business with combined annual sales of $1 million. [14]
A&P was established as "Gilman & Company" in 1859, and began selling bags of whole bean coffee, in time informally referred to as "Eight O'Clock Breakfast Coffee". In 1919 the coffee was finally given an official name, "8 O'Clock", alongside the two other brands in the A&P line, premium Bokar and mid-level Red Circle. [1]
John decided to replace the company's long name on labels and store signs with the now distinctive "A&P". He also expanded the product lines available in the stores. To make room, he substituted the large inventory of premiums displayed in the stores with S&H Green Stamps. By 1912, the company reached 400 stores.
On September 22, 2015, the sale of 25 A&P stores to Stop & Shop and 70 A&P stores to competitor Acme Markets was approved by a judge in federal bankruptcy court. [18] Most of the stores purchased by Stop & Shop and Acme had been operating under the Pathmark or Waldbaum's banners (A&P had acquired Waldbaum's in 1986 and had bought Pathmark in 2007).
In 1972 A&P expanded this format to 1,500 stores; however, the expansion failed because many of its older stores, built prior to the 1950s, were not large enough to stock the large quantities of discounted groceries that the format called for. By 1975, A&P abandoned the format. [1] [2]
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In 1989, beginning a decade of merger mania in the supermarket business, A&P paid $76 million ($163 million in 2023) for 79 Farmer Jack stores operated by Borman's. The buyout made A&P the top player among grocery stores in southeastern Michigan, with a 36% share. By 1994, all A&P stores in metro Detroit had been converted to Farmer Jack stores.
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