Mrs. Culp's Diary: Saturday, October 16, 1937

“Just did some shopping at A&P store,” Mrs. Culp wrote. Not a loyalist, Mrs. Culp seems to have gone where the bargains were. The A&P in Tampa was one of more than 13,000 A&P stores nationwide. The photo below was taken in front of a store in Ohio.

You can read about the rise and fall of the storied grocery chain in the “Fresh Air” story “How A&P Chang…