A&P Sells Both Vineyard Supermarkets in Nine-Store Deal with
Stop & Shop

By MANDY LOCKE

After more than eight decades of selling groceries to Vineyarders,
the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P) will abandon its
Island foothold - selling both the Edgartown and Vineyard Haven
stores to the Stop & Shop Supermarket Company.

The transaction - together with the sale of four others in the
state - is part of a larger move by the A&P to withdraw from
all operations in Massachusetts.