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- 1 2 Henry Schaffer Is Dead at 92; Founded Supermarket Chain, New York Times, December 17, 1982.
- ↑ Chain stores: their management and operation, Walter Sumner Hayward, Percivsl Albert Frederick White, John S.Fleek, and Hugh MacIntyre, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1922, pg. 334.
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