question: Who was the heir to The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company?
answer: Huntington Hartford
context: Title: Hopkinton Supply Co. Building
  Passage: The Hopkinton Supply Co.  Building is a historic commercial building at 26-28 Main Street in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.  The single-story pressed metal building was built in 1906, and is a locally unusual example of a mail-order commercial storefront.  The storefront was manufactured by the George L. Mesker Company of Evansville, Indiana.  It was first occupied by William Morse's Hopkinton Supply Company, and housed a branch of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company from 1928 to 1954.
  Title: A-Mart (United States)
  Passage: A-Mart was an American discount supermarket chain that operated in the Eastern United States from 1969, until all locations were renamed (because of a legal threat from similarly-named rival Kmart) by its parent company, the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P), to that name by 1972.
  Title: John Augustine Hartford
  Passage: John Augustine Hartford (February 10, 1872 – September 20, 1951) was the longtime President of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company ("A&P"), serving in that position for 35 years from 1916 until his death.  His father, George Huntington Hartford (1833–1917) left the control of the company's voting stock to a trust that gave total control to John and his older brother George Ludlum Hartford (1864–1957) who served as chairman.  John, who one company historian named the "Merchant Prince", ran the business operations side of the empire, while his brother George ran the financial side.  "Time" magazine interviewed John and his brother George who were on their cover in November 1950.  "Time" wrote that "going to the A&P was almost an American tribal rite". " The Wall Street Journal" in an editorial on August 29, 2011 wrote "Together the brothers, neither of whom had finished high school, built what would be, for 40 years, the largest retail outlet in the world." " The New York Times" in an editorial on September 7, 2011 wrote that John and George Hartford "were among the 20th century’s most accomplished and visionary businessmen."
  Title: SuperPlus Food Stores
  Passage: SuperPlus Food Stores was an American discount supermarket chain that operated in the Chicago area during the 1980s until it was sold, piecemeal, by its parent company, The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P).
  Title: George Huntington Hartford
  Passage: George Huntington Hartford (September 5, 1833 – August 29, 1917) headed The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company from 1878 to 1917.  During this period, A&P created the concept of the chain grocery store and expanded into the country's largest retailer.  He joined the firm as a clerk in 1861 and quickly assumed managerial responsibilities.  When A&P's founder, George Gilman retired in 1878, Hartford entered into a partnership agreement and ran the company until the founder's death in 1901.  In the settlement of Gilman's estate, Hartford acquired control of the company and ultimately purchased the interests of Gilman's heirs.
  Title: The Great Atlantic &amp; Pacific Tea Company
  Passage: The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, better known as A&P, was an American chain of grocery stores that ceased supermarket operations in November 2015, after 156 years in business.  From 1915 through 1975, A&P was the largest food/grocery retailer in the United States (and until 1965, the largest U.S. retailer of any kind).  A&P was considered an American icon that according to "The Wall Street Journal" "was as well known as McDonald's or Google is today" and that A&P was "Walmart before Walmart."  Known for innovation, A&P and the supermarkets that followed its lead significantly improved nutritional habits by making available a vast assortment of food products at much lower costs.  Until 1982, A&P also was a large food manufacturer.  In his 1952 book, "American Capitalism", John Kenneth Galbraith cited A&P's manufacturing strategy as a classic example of countervailing power that was a welcome alternative to state price controls.
  Title: Tosco Corporation
  Passage: Tosco (The Oil Shale COrporation) was an independent US based petroleum refining and marketing corporation.  It was founded in 1955 in Santa Monica, California by A&P heir Huntington Hartford, and originally focused on extracting oil from oil shale and developing alternative energy sources.
  Title: George Gilman
  Passage: George Francis Gilman (1826–1901) founded The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company.  A native of Waterville, Maine, he moved to Manhattan when he joined his father's leather tanning business.  By age 30, he had his own leather business in New York.  After his father died, Gilman decided to enter the more respectable tea and coffee business and started what would ultimately become A&P.
  Title: Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company Warehouse
  Passage: The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company Warehouse was a warehouse once owned by The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company in Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States.  The building was built by Turner Construction Company in 1900.
  Title: George Ludlum Hartford
  Passage: George Ludlum Hartford (November 7, 1864 – September 23, 1957) was the longtime Chairman and Treasurer of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P), serving in those positions for over 40 years from 1916 until his death.  He was the successor to his father, George Huntington Hartford (1832–1917) and lead the company with his younger brother, John Augustine Hartford (1872–1951).  Under the terms of their father's will, the two brothers had total control of the company's voting stock as long as either was alive.  "Mr. George" as he was known to distinguish him from his father, "Mr. Hartford", was considered the "financial genius" at the firm who balanced his brother, "Mr. John" who was the firm's "merchandising power".  They built the chain into the world's largest retailer with annual sales of $4.5 billion in 1957 when George died.  "Time Magazine" interviewed John and his brother George who were on their cover in November 1950.  Wall Street Journal in an editorial on August 29, 2011 wrote "Together the brothers, neither of whom had finished high school, built what would be, for 40 years, the largest retail outlet in the world." " The New York Times" in an editorial on September 7, 2011 wrote that John and George Hartford "were among the 20th century’s most accomplished and visionary businessmen."
citations: Tosco Corporation The Great Atlantic &amp; Pacific Tea Company