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...their final approval, A. & P. will lose the distinction of operating the nation's largest network of food stores-its last claim to its old glory. The company was displaced as the industry's sales leader by Safeway Stores in 1973. Before A. & P. can begin its closeout, it must negotiate its way out of myriad store leases and find a way to mollify unions representing the estimated 30,000 workers whose jobs will be threatened. The stores most likely to be shuttered are small ones in the big cities of the East and Midwest...
Another recent Central Kitchen closeout resulted in a migration to Dunster House. In Dunster House hamburgers were served, with French fried onions. The Central Kitchen does not serve French fried onions. Now it seems that French fried onions bought in bulk--if that is in what French fried onions are bought--will be cheaper for the larger bulk which the Central Kitchen will buy. Expense, therefore, is not prohibitive...