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The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America, Second Edition audiobook
- By: Marc Levinson
- Narrator: William Hughes
- Category: Business & Economics, Corporate & Business History
- Length: 12 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America, Second Edition Audiobook Summary
From modest beginnings as a tea shop, the Great Atlantic & 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 mom-and-pop grocery stores across the nation. Main Street fought back tooth and nail, leading the Hoover, Roosevelt, and Truman administrations to investigate the Great A&P. In a remarkable court case, the government pressed criminal charges against the company for selling food too cheaply–and won.
In The Great A&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 father’s business and reshaped it again and again, turning it into a vertically integrated behemoth that paved the way for every big-box retailer to come. George demanded a rock-solid balance sheet; John was the marketer-entrepreneur who led A&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.
Now, with the internet reshaping retailing once more, concerns about the market power of giant retailers are again front and center. This second edition includes a new chapter exploring the controversies about Amazon and other online merchants in light of the history of the Great A&P.
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The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America, Second Edition Audiobook Narrator
William Hughes is the narrator of The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America, Second Edition audiobook that was written by Marc Levinson
William Hughes is an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator. A professor of political science at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon, he received his doctorate in American politics from the University of California at Davis. He has done voice-over work for radio and film and is also an accomplished jazz guitarist.
About the Author(s) of The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America, Second Edition
Marc Levinson is the author of The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America, Second Edition
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The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America, Second Edition Full Details
| Narrator | William Hughes |
| Length | 12 hours 8 minutes |
| Author | Marc Levinson |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Release date | April 25, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781094072180 |
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The publisher of the The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America, Second Edition is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Business & Economics, Corporate & Business History
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The publisher of the The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America, Second Edition is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781094072180.
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