G o o d to Great 69 way of the future. We also learned that you had to be number one or number two in each market, or you had to exit Sure, there was some skepticism at first. But
once we looked at the facts, there was really no question about what we had to do. So we just did Kroger decided to eliminate, change, or replace every single store and depart every region that did not fit the new realities. The whole system would be turned inside out, store by store, block by block,
city by city,
, state by state. By the early s, Kroger had rebuilt its entire system on the new model and was well on the way to becoming the number one grocery chain in America, a position it would attain in Meanwhile, AP still had over half its stores in the old s size and had dwindled to a sad remnant of a once-great American
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