Support WBUROpinionHow The A&P Changed The Way We ShopPlay37:34Download AudioAugust 23, 2011 ShareIn 1938, A&P had more than 13,000 stores from coast to coast, like this one in Somerset, Ohio. Over the next four years, the company's transition to a new supermarket format would cut that store count in half. (Ben Shahn/Library of Congress)
