Talk:Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company

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[edit] Removed assertion

After the removal of the comparissons with Wal-Mart and the precis, this is left: "...with 80% of the supermarket business [in the 20s and 30s]." Any source for this? Mr. Jones 18:50, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Remove quote or add citation

I could not find the newspaper from which this quote was obtained. Also the discussion of the Hartford's private life would seem more proper on another page. I am copying the deleted para here so it can be returned if a citation is found.

When John Hartford passed away on September 20, 1951, the newspapers wrote "In the death of 'Mr. John' there passes a Retail Napoleon...He had a Grocery Empire as Ford had an Automobile Empire, Rockefeller an oil empire, Carnegie a steel empire. John Hartford belonged to a little group of Americans whose energy and vision made us the most prosperous nation in the world. He pioneered in foodstuffs just as Henry Ford did in transportation. Their philosophy was blunt and simple, just as works of genius are simple "Sell more for less." George and John's nephew and heir (since they had no children) Huntington Hartford was born famous as the A&P Heir, America's golden boy. At Harvard the tabloids wrote he was "the richest College boy in the world". He became a world famous figure in the sixties developing Paradise Island in the Bahamas and publishing a magazine and building a museum but only worked at the A&P for one year where his uncles put him to work counting loaves of bread. His uncle John fired him when he took off half a day work to watch a Yale Harvard football game; nevertheless, John and Huntington were close. John Hartford left part of his wealth to the John Hartford Foundation which was at one time the largest in America for geriatric care, as of 2004 John Hartford Foundation had 541,082,590. million in net assets.

--Tinned Elk 22:05, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

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