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had built the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, originally a tea distributor based in New York City, into a grocery chain that operated almost 200 stores. Dozens of other grocery, drug, tobacco, and variety stores opened additional locations around the same time, so retail chains were common in the United States by 1910. Several state legislatures considered measures to restrict the growth of chains, and in 1914, concern about chain stores contributed to passage of the Federal

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