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...Grocers & Grousing. In Elwood, Ind., Grocer Harrison Holmes listened to a customer complain for an hour about rationing, got a gun and shot him dead. In Hartford, Conn., Grocer Salvatore Viola announced that he was tired of his job. Said he: "I will quit and go pick dandelions...
...citizens admitted having more than the permitted five packages of 250-odd point-rationed frozen, canned and dried foods. Many of the rest overlooked what every grocer knew: that the previous month's buying spree had loaded many a cupboard full up. Only one person in a thousand could remember how much coffee he had three months earlier or think of any reason at all why OPA now should hand out a maddening questionnaire with a naive entry: "Pounds of coffee owned on November 28, 1942, minus 1 pound for each person included in this Declaration whose...
Alert to the urgency of beating a strategic retreat back to the merchandising methods of a century ago, 17-year-old Independent Grocers Alliance has ready for its 5,000 independent grocers a 70-item drug and cosmetic line. To catch the wartime gardener, I.G.A. stores will soon sell fertilizers, seeds, garden tools and clothes, insecticides. They also plan to stock dry goods, notions, baby supplies, glassware, hardware. Other grocer associations, big chains and supermarkets are sending bewildered buyers to explore new wholesale markets for fast-selling staples...
Housewives hurried from store to store, hunting butter. Sometimes they got a quarter pound for Christmas. Oftener they got the grocer's excuse: deliveries from his wholesaler had been cut a fourth or a half, and his small stocks had long ago been sold...
Attached: The household furnishings left behind in Manhattan, Kans., by Private Pasquale di Cicco and his million-heiress wife, the ex-Gloria Vanderbilt. A grocer, an ex-chauffeur, two furniture-craters and a shoe merchant charged the di Ciccos left a mess of bills when they moved to New jersey last month. (They move to Texas next.) The grocer wants $62, the craters $113, the shoe merchant $10, and the ex-chauffeur $90. If a sheriff's sale is authorized, local natives will have a chance to pick up a bronze bust of the original Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt...