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In Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, what does Fox mean by "See you at A and P "? Here:

KAREN: I don't belong here.

FOX: Well, I can help you out on that. You ever come on the lot again, I'm going to have you killed. Goodbye. See you at the A and P.

KAREN: Goodbye.

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Until they went bankrupt in 2015, A&P was a chain of supermarket stores, and in their heyday, they were a fairly large chain. See Wikipedia.

The British equivalent of this line would thus likely be "See you at Tesco."

In a comment, Gareth Rees suggests that by this, Fox is implying that the only job Karen (who has just been fired) will be able to get is a cashier at the A&P. This seems like a very plausible interpretation to me.

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    Can you comment on the meaning of the line in the play? Fox has just fired his secretary Karen in a particularly brutal way after she tried to get Gould to pitch her movie concept. Does Fox mean that he expects to see her working as a cashier since (he thinks) she has no future in Hollywood?
    – Gareth Rees
    Feb 20 at 17:08
  • @GarethRees: that's a quite likely interpretation, that I didn't think of.
    – Peter Shor
    Feb 20 at 17:18

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