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Re:Amazon copies Peak Design's “Everyday Sling” – This is th... by cafard on Monday March 22, 2021 @06:35PM (#26548288)
Atlantic and Pacific is what it stood for. Wikipedia says it shut down in 2015.
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Re:Amazon copies Peak Design's “Everyday Sling” – This is th... by mikestew on Monday March 22, 2021 @07:29PM (#26548903)
On top of the fact that it's probably been fifty years since I've stepped foot in an A&P grocery. They were hardly a monopoly even then. I'm truly surprised that they were still a going entity in 2015.
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Re:Amazon copies Peak Design's “Everyday Sling” – This is th... by perl4ever on Monday March 22, 2021 @11:22PM (#26550683)
I don't think I've ever been in one and couldn't have told you what states they were in. Nevertheless I heard of them somewhere, so I don't think they're the most obscure chain.
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Re:Amazon copies Peak Design's “Everyday Sling” – This is th... by mikestew on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @04:13PM (#26559840)
"Not obscure" is a loooooong way from "monopoly", which was the original argument somewhere upthread. Wikipedia says that at their peak, A&P had 10% of U. S. grocery sales. That's not even iPhone territory, let alone monopoly.
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