Word: acker
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...Grocers. "Acker, Merrall & Condit has for a long time catered only to the wealthier people and today they are few enough, so that, combined with the additional burden of high rentals which landlords would not reduce . . . receivership was the only logical step. . . ." Thus trouble came last week to a fancy grocery that had purveyed rich & rare foodstuffs to Manhattan's best tables for 112 years. A. M. & C.'s small, lacquered delivery wagons and well-turned out horses were a familiar sight in pre-War Manhattan. Until Prohibition smart households bought much of their whiskey, gin, ales, wines...
...receivership was requested by Austin, Nichols & Co. to whom Acker, Merrall & Condit sold their wholesale grocery business in 1923. Since then the firm has operated five retail stores in Manhattan, two in New Jersey, all equipped with restaurant and fountain service. Current assets of the firm dropped from $366,000 at the end of July 1930 to $68,000 last July. President Thomas B. Fisher said a reorganization would be attempted...