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...Ridiculous. The new store is the latest addition to a fast-growing, American-owned international supermarket chain called Minimax (for "minimum prices, maximum quality"). Minimax is devoted to the idea that the emerging consumer class in Europe and elsewhere strongly wants such Yankee selling innovations as self-service, the checkout counter, prepackaged and frozen foods, big stores and plenty of parking space-and it tries to give them what they want in each of its 19 stores. Sometimes the buyers are so eager for American goods that they act a bit ridiculous. Last week's shoppers...
...World of Widener. Where to go and what to do in America's third largest library. How the new computerized checkout system works. Come with us on a tour of the X-section--skeleton in Widener's stacks. And meet the Widener girls...
When power looms appeared in England, the weavers revolted and smashed. Mankind may not have learned a lot since then, but the automators have. Though Harvard raised riots for Pogo, Latin, and panties, there will be no upheaval over Widener's mechanized checkout station. Who would lead it? The unemployed old librarians now washing decades of Cambridge dust into azure Tampa Bay? The young men whose requests are received and punched by the fewer but much finer female technicians replacing the old librarians...
Since January, the offices of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company have hummed like a checkout counter as executives switched jobs. First, Chairman-President Ralph W. Burger, 73, stepped out as president and was succeeded by John D. Ehrgott, 67, despite the complaint of six outside directors that A. & P. needed younger blood. Next, Burger announced his retirement as chairman, creating an empty seat. Last week the seat was filled when quiet, reticent Jack Ehrgott moved up to chairman and chief executive after less than a month in his last job. As its new president A. & P. picked Vice President...
...most popular toy in this store, as well, as at toystores in Cambridge, is a two-and a-half-foot item called Big Bruiser. Jordan Marsh had sold more than 100 in the last hour; seven were on the checkout counter at any particular moment. Big Bruiser is a battery-powered wrecker truck. It wrecks things...