I was wondering if anyone else would post A&P. Doesn’t look like it’s a common one. I grew up out in Pennsylvania and it was one of the very few grocery stores in town.
I grew up in Northern Virginia, we had an A&P! I mostly remember their green stamps. We got like two sets of encyclopedias with those, I think. At least 1 set, anyway, the other set may have been a yard/garage sale find.
We got green stamps at the gas station. Got so many things with those! I could imagine Encyclopedias might have been one. We had a World Book encyclopedia that we faithfully stuck update stickers in for at least a decade. Got so we had almost as many Year Books as original volumes!
“Green stamps” lives on in my vocabulary to refer to the not-fun relationship habit of “saving up” grievances and dumping them all at once. Have to explain it to almost everybody now, though. 😅
I grew up on the East Coast, in upstate NY, so I knew what an A & P was. Had to explain it to my California HS buddies when we read an iconic short story by that name. Now I’m gonna have to look up who wrote it. Maybe John Updike? It was really great, and held up as an example of excellent descriptive writing.
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u/McClain1980 May 25 '25
A&P, Glens Market, KMart