{"product_id":"great-a-p-and-the-struggle-for-small-business-in-america","title":"Great A\u0026P and the Struggle for Small Business in America","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of The Wall Street Journals Best Non fiction Books of 2011.From modest beginnings as a tea shop, the Great Atlantic \u0026amp; 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 momandpop grocery stores across the nation. Main Street fought back tooth and nail, leading the Hoover, Roosevelt, and Truman administrations to investigate the Great A\u0026amp;P. In a remarkable court case, the government pressed criminal charges against the company for selling food too cheaplyand won.In The Great A\u0026amp;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 fathers business and reshaped it again and again, turning it into a vertically integrated behemoth that paved the way for every bigbox retailer to come. George demanded a rocksolid balance sheet; John was the marketerentrepreneur who led A\u0026amp;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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brand: Hill and Wang","offers":[{"title":"LEVINSON, MARC \/ paperback","offer_id":47842213462261,"sku":"SONG0809051435","price":21.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/71D6upmk0pL.jpg?v=1773773125","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/great-a-p-and-the-struggle-for-small-business-in-america","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}