Word: cooped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Coop last holiday season hired a double-decker bus to shuttle people from other parts of Cambridge to its Square location because store officials feared subway construction was creating traffic and general image problems that were keeping shoppers away. The store will not need to hire the bus this year...
Instead, it will stick to traditional in-house festivities. Santa Claus will make a guest appearance the Sunday before Christmas, and assorted local choirs and musical groups will sing, ring bells and play jazz guitar in the Coop's mezzanine and men's clothing department...
...addition, the store's facade is sporting new decorations this year and for the first time Christmas music is being piped out to both sidewalks. The Coop also has sent out 167,000 copies of its mail order Christmas catalog to members and non-members alike...
Although Pochapin says that " September is the Coop's Christmas" because of the back-to-school book rush, the Christmas season comes in a close second and draws a lot of members who don't shop there on a regular basis...
Pochapin says that to handle the rush--especially on Saturdays and the 10 days before Christmas--the Coop this year hired 200 temporary sales clerks, 150 of whom work in the Square store. In addition, the Coop has hired extra security help to combat the always "embarrassing" problem of shoplifting which gets worse during the holiday rush, says General Manager James A. Argeros. Those additions push the staff to 60 percent above normal in the month before Christmas, he adds...