The A&P case is a mature chapter 11 liquidation posture rather than an operating reorganization, with the docket context showing the 2015 main case followed by estate litigation activity in 2017. The debtor commenced chapter 11 in the Southern District of New York on July 19, 2015 through the Voluntary PetitionDkt. 1, after entering court protection as a large Northeastern supermarket operator with roughly 300 stores, about 28,500 employees, and a heavily layered secured capital structure.
The filing followed a balance-sheet and operating restructuring problem at one of the country’s oldest food retailers. The first-day declaration described A&P’s business footprint across Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, and identified approximately $925.5 million of funded debt, including a $262.5 million term loan facility, a $198 million ABL facility, $215 million of senior secured PIK toggle notes due 2017, and $250 million of senior secured convertible notes, each sitting in a collateral stack that left the estate highly constrained going into chapter 11 through the McGarry First Day DeclarationDkt. 4.
The available context does not include a confirmed plan, sale order, DIP order, or current hearing calendar. What it does show is that, by July 2017, the case had moved into estate-recovery mode, with the official committee pursuing preference and other recovery claims on behalf of the bankruptcy estates, including adversary complaints against McKesson Pharmacy Systems and McKesson Specialty Distribution under sections 547 and 550 through the and the .