Word: grocer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hold the Ribs: Ever the thoughtful hosts, organizers of the games in Dallas have located a West African grocer who has promised to provide hotel room service for the Nigerian team...
Park, who has also worked in the comedy series "In Living Color," spoke about the difficulty of playing stereotypical roles such as a Korean grocer in Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing...
...businesses. Relations between the black and Asian communities have been tense for years, mainly because of a perception that Korean merchants have been exploiting poor neighborhoods by establishing shops in ghetto areas while refusing to hire blacks to work in them. A particularly bitter episode occurred last year when grocer Soon Ja Du was convicted of killing 15-year-old Latasha Harlins, whom she accused of stealing a $1.79 bottle of orange juice. Although an in-store video camera clearly showed that Du had shot Harlins in the back as she left the store, the trial judge sentenced the Korean...
...long ago, the most sophisticated piece of technology in most food stores was the produce scale. A grocer's idea of mass marketing was the weekly circular. Growth was taken for granted. But the nation's 31,000 supermarkets today face a different world. After expanding more than 5% a year during the 1980s, they have seen growth slowing since 1989. Last year sales grew only 2%, to $376 billion, largely because of the recession. Now profits are being squeezed more than the Charmin as stores struggle to cope with mounting takeover debt. Six of the top 12 supermarkets, including...
...Four or five years ago, parking was very hard on a Saturday afternoon. Now it is very easy," the grocer continues...