Leo Kelion

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268 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 4 Aug

Leo Kelion’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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2015.

A&P's last grocery store goes dark.

A sign in the window thanks customers for 156 years.

Rewind to 1930.

That year, the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company operated nearly 16,000 shops in North America.

That made it the world's biggest retailer, and it sold everything from fresh-cut pot roast to peanut butter.

So what happened?

The world got complicated.

TV ads stoked demand for new brands, and Americans stopped buying A&P's private label products.

They wanted choice.

Maxwell House or Nescafe?

Then 50 types of mustard, then organic, then ethnic.

An endless appetite for novelty.

While younger rivals focused on selection, A&P made its factories more efficient, optimising for the world that was, rather than the new complexity.

It's a story that's been repeated across industries and time.

Order gives way to entropy, and in the chaos, new winners rise.

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