Word: beer
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...BEER Football season is in high gear, and the brews are flowing--especially in Nevada...
Sources: Beverage Marketing Corp. and Beer Institute...
Reputed to contain the "longest bar in New Haven," the Deke house eventually elected Bush its president. A home to campus jocks including the eventual professional football player Calvin Hill, Deke would provide music from the likes of Wilson Pickett and beer of a slightly lesser quality...
This kind of practical morality operates on a larger scale too. Take the sale of alcoholic beverages. Wal-Mart does not sell beer and wine in its traditional discount stores. Yet if you walk into many Wal-Mart supercenters, stores as big as 220,000 sq. ft. that combine a supermarket with a traditional Wal-Mart, you'll find plenty of Budweiser to put in the coolers being sold in sporting goods. Wine and beer are also sold in Sam's Clubs and in the company's new chain of downsized Neighborhood Markets, a.k.a. "small marts...
...distinction? Wal-Mart executives attribute the decision to the customers, who say they expect to be able to buy beer and wine in supercenters just as they do at competitors' stores of a similar type. Yet booze will remain verboten in fuddy-duddy old Wal-Mart discount stores. Explains Glass: "What's the difference between selling in a supercenter and a Wal-Mart? I can't tell you I can give you a definite answer. But I can tell you that I have a rationale for it." Nevertheless, within the company and without, there was muttering that Sam--Wal-Mart...