A&P liquidation (2015-2016)
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, a 156-year-old grocery chain, filed for Chapter 11 in July 2015 and sold or closed its stores over the following months. Regulators processed hundreds of licence surrenders and transfers as locations shut.
Most A&P stores closed or were sold to competitors such as Acme and Stop & Shop.
The wind-down became a reference point for how a retailer's footprint shrinks on paper, licence by licence, before the last location locks its doors.
Regulatory lists document a business's end in near-real time, which is what Salt Lake City's licence list is doing here.
