Farmer Jack was a supermarket chain based in Detroit, Michigan. At its peak, it operated more than 100 stores, primarily in metropolitan Detroit. In its final years, the chain operated as the Midwest subsidiary of the New Jersey-based A&P Corporation. A&P closed the Farmer Jack chain on July 7, 2007.
Farmer Jack store in Taylor, Michigan in 2006.
A Farmer Jack store with a liquidation sign displayed
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, better known as A&P, was an American chain of grocery stores that operated from 1859 to 2015. From 1915 through 1975, A&P was the largest grocery retailer in the United States.
A&P's final headquarters, now demolished and replaced with an upscale townhome development, in Montvale, New Jersey
George Huntington Hartford, mid-1870s
A 1888 advertisement for A&P from a Norfolk, Virginia, guidebook, listing the range of items carried
An A&P supermarket, in Snowdon, Quebec, 1941