{"id":1489,"date":"2010-01-08T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/08\/tops-takes-first-step-to-buy-pc-stores\/"},"modified":"2010-01-08T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T17:25:00","slug":"tops-takes-first-step-to-buy-pc-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/08\/tops-takes-first-step-to-buy-pc-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Tops takes first step to buy P&amp;C stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/tops400wb-758922.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;float: right;cursor: pointer;width: 200px;height: 153px\" src=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/tops400wb-758920.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>It&#8217;s been all the talk in half a dozen North Country communities &#8211; who will buy the bankrupt P&amp;C stores.  According to the Watertown Daily Times, it&#8217;s likely to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topsmarkets.com\/\">Tops Friendly Markets<\/a>, based in Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/section\/breakingnews\">Today the creditors of P&amp;C parent company, Penn Traffic, recommended<\/a> bankruptcy court accept Tops $85 million offer for all of Penn Traffic&#8217;s 79 grocery stores, including all the P&amp;Cs in the North Country.  The deal still has to be approved by the court.<\/p>\n<p>It would be good news for workers because Tops uses the same union as the P&amp;C.<\/p>\n<p>It would also be good news for communities like Canton, where the loss of a grocery store would have meant travelling to Potsdam to buy food.<\/p>\n<p>If you grew up in Buffalo, you know Tops very well, particularly by their jingle, &#8220;Tops Never Stops&#8230;Saving You More.&#8221;  Bummer I couldn&#8217;t find one of those old TV ads on youtube.  Anybody see one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been all the talk in half a dozen North Country communities &#8211; who will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}