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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Supermercato at an international food congress in Rome. Virtually every major Italian city has at least one supermarket-and plans for more. Two supermarkets are operating in Turin, two more in Bologna, another two in Naples. Rome alone has seven supermarkets. Last week Italy's big La Rinascente department-store chain jumped into the field, bought Rome's big Supermercato S.p.A. for a reported $750,000, and expects to gross $3,000,000 annually by offering customers 2,000 items at prices 15% below small stores. One big gainer from the new supermarkets: the Italian government, which levies...
...more than 5,000 self-service stores, with a total annual gross of nearly $1 billion, and at least 90 new stores join the ranks each month. This week, Britain's fastest growing chain, Cookie (Allied Bakeries) Magnate Garfield Weston's Fine Fare Ltd., will open three big supermarkets in a single day, plans to double his chain of 39 stores within the next year. Weston, who controls Loblaw's Groceterias (228 stores) in Canada, and National Tea Co. (917 stores) in the U.S., is also training his super sights on Germany, where scores of new markets...
...another 10,000 will have to close down in the next two years." Germans complain of the "foreign menace" to their livelihood, while Italian shopkeepers lobby insistently to prevent local city governments from granting licenses to the new stores. But the trend is all to the supermarkets. When a big new market opened in Milan recently, the strong Communist element there attacked it as an imperialist plot, until they discovered that workers were swamping the store at the rate of 23,000 customers a week. As one Milan supermarket manager says, comparing a neat package of sugar with...
...slowest of the Big Three to enter the small-car race made a strong bid last week to catch up in a hurry. Into production went Chrysler Corp.'s compact Valiant station wagon, well ahead of Ford, which will not have a station wagon on the market until next spring, and Corvair, lagging far behind, which will not have one until fall...
...their first months on the market, the Big Three's compact cars got off to a fast start. Wards Automotive Reports last week announced that compact-car sales for October totaled 86,244 units, or a hefty 16.4% of the overall auto market, compared to 5.6% in October 1958. Of that big new share, Chevrolet's Corvair, Ford's Falcon and Chrysler's Valiant carved out a 48.1% slice to challenge American Motors and Studebaker-Packard. In their first month U.S. compact cars outsold imported cars by nearly...