Sheppard, Morris
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
Shideler, Ernest Hugh
Shipping and Commercial List
Shreveport (Louisiana)
Shreveport Chamber of Commerce
Shreveport Mutual Building Association
Shriver, A. K.
Sickles, Merrill
Silver Key tea
Sirovich, William
Sittenfield, Milton M.
Skaggs family
Slichter, Sumner H.
Smith, H. Allen
Smith, Kate
Smull, Thomas
Social Register
Social Security
Society for the Prevention of Crime
Society of Mutual Benefits
South Carolina
South Dakota
Southern Wholesale Grocers’ Association
Spanish-American War
Sparkle gelatin
Speedie, Matthew
Sperry & Hutchinson (S&H)
spices
Springfield (Missouri)
Stalin, Joseph
Standard Brands
State Department, U.S.
State Board of Tax Commissioners v. Jackson (1931)
Steffens, L. D.
Stewart, A. T., & Company
Stewart, Mabel
Stewart, Sheldon
Stiner, J., & Company
Stokely Brothers
Stone, Lucy
Sturges, Bennett & Company
sugar; at independent groceries; price of; store displays of; wartime restrictions on
Sugar Trust
Sullivan & Cromwell
Sultana brand
Sumner, William Graham
Sumners, Hatton
supermarkets; antitrust violations and; chain-store taxes on; discount stores versus; earliest operators of; employees of; first arrival in New York of; Hartford brothers and transition to; high-end; independently owned; in Japan; operating costs of; in post–World War II era; produce sections of; store brands and products in; in urban working-class neighborhoods; see also names of specific supermarket chains
Supreme, Court, U.S.; chain-store taxes upheld by; New Deal legislation overturned by; price-fixing decisions of
Swift & Company
System of Accounts for Retail Merchants, A (FTC publication)
System magazine
Taft, William Howard
Target stores
Taylor, Frederick Winslow
Taylorville (Illinois)
tea; A&P’s dominance of market for; advertising of; brands; bulk sales of; duty on; chain stores originating in sale of (see also specific companies); gifts with purchases of; mail-order sales of; price of
Teamsters Union
technological development
Teegarden, H. B.
Temporary National Economic Committee
Tengelmann Group
Tennessee
Tetley Tea
Texarkana (Texas)
Texas; A&P stores in; anti–chain store movement in; antitrust complaint filed in; Mexican grocers in; Pancho Villa in; see also specific cities and towns
Texas State Network Inc.
Texas Wholesale Grocers’ Association
Thailand
Thea-Nectar
Time magazine
Toledo (Ohio)
Topeka (Kansas)
trademarks
Treasury Department, U.S.
Trow’s New York City Directory
Truffault, Jules Michel Marie
Truman, Harry S.
Tunison Grocery Company
U.S. vs. New York Great Atlantic & Pacific (1944)
Uneeda Biscuit
Unfair Trade Practices Act (California, 1935)
Union Pacific Railroad
United Cigar Stores Company
United Grocery Workers Union
United States Economist
United States Steel Corporation
United States Wholesale Grocers’ Association
United Warehouse Workers Union
Universal Market (Princeton, Indiana)
Updike, John
Valhalla (New York)
vegetables; canned; see also produce
Vermont
vertical integration
Veterans Bureau, U.S.
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Villa, Pancho
Virginia
Wadsworth, Harry
Wakeman, Abram
Waldorf tissue
Wallace, Henry
Wall Street Journal
Walmart
Walton, Sam
War Against Depression
Ware, Caroline
War of 1812
War Production Board
Warren, Lingan A.
Washington, D.C.; A&P stores in; March of the Little Men in
Washington Post, The
Washington state
Waterville (Maine)
Wellman, Peck & Company
Wells of Discontent (Daughters)
West Bend (Wisconsin)
Westerfeld, S.
West Virginia Horticultural Society
West Virginia University
White House Milk Company
Whittier (California)
Wiley, Harvey W.
Willard, Frances
Williams, Sheldon W.
Wilson, Frank
Wilson, Terry
Wilson, Woodrow
Winn-Dixie Stores
Wisconsin
Woman’s Day magazine
Women Investors of American
Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
Wood, R. E.
Woolworth, F. W., Company
World War I
World War II
Wright, Chester
Wrightson, William G.
Wyoming
Yakima Valley Growers Association
Yale Law School
Young, Nancy Beck
Zimmerman, Max
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The great A&P and the struggle for small business in America / Marc Levinson.
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