The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, better known as A&P, was an American chain of grocery stores that operated from 1859 to 2015. From 1915 through 1975, A&P was the largest grocery retailer in the United States. Wikipedia
Parent organization: Tengelmann Group
Founded: February 17, 1859, New York, NY
Founders: George Huntington Hartford and George Gilman
Subsidiaries: SuperFresh, Food Basics, Kwik Save, and more
Headquarters: Montvale, NJ
Defunct: November 2015; 8 years ago
Number of employees: 28,500 (2015)