Big Y exec on COVID-19 challenges: ‘We will get through this together’
Born in the wake of the nation’s Great Depression of the 1930s, Big Y Foods survived its first decade amid challenges presented by World War II. One of its founders, Gerald E. “Gerry” D’Amour, went off to serve in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, while his older brother, Paul H. D’Amour, confronted the realities of wartime rationing of food and supplies on the homefront during the 1940s.