In 2010, both companies went after the assets of bankrupt P&C grocery stores; Tops won, paying $85 million. It kept its stores in communities like Watertown, Adams, and Lowville, but it sold off P&C stores in Canton, Gouverneur, Massena, Potsdam, and West Carthage to Price Chopper. Tops has had problems since that deal, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2018, emerging from it later that year.
