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An innovation in the 1930s was the store-distributed magazine. One of the first and most successful was Family Circle (founded 1932), given away in Piggly Wiggly supermarkets until 1946, when it was sold as a family monthly. Equally successful were Woman’s Day (founded 1937), published by a subsidiary of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, and Better Living...
...Kresge Co., J.C. Penney Co., Safeway Stores, and First National Stores. Merrill himself played an important role in 1926 in the creation of Safeway Stores, Inc., under whose auspices he founded Family Circle Magazine six years later. Foreseeing the impending stock-market crash, Merrill advised his firm’s clients to lighten their stock holdings in 1928. Many of them did and cut their...
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