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...1950s. At that point, the nation's burgeoning supermarkets discovered that they had exhausted their fund of novel merchandising methods and had gone about as far in price competition as solvency allowed (most supermarkets operate on a 3½% profit margin). Looking for a new competitive edge, grocerymen found it in trading stamps. "Women feel guilty about spending their husbands' hard-earned dough for 'extras,' " says one stamp-company executive. "But if a woman gets her hair dryer or new chair with stamps, she can convince herself she's a thrifty shopper." The "extras" most...
Luxury & Convenience. No one learned the lessons of innovation better than the nation's butchers, bakers and grocerymen. People tend to think of food as a standard, largely static item. But in 1958's new economy, nearly 50% of the products sold were not available in their present form at the end of World War II. By offering the consumer a constant parade of new ways
...organizational weaknesses that fairly cried for a strong hand; stealthily Beck's hand reached out. In the Midwest roughhousing, baby-faced Hoffa was doing the same. He got caught a couple of times: in 1946 he was indicted, eventually assessed costs of $500 for eliciting "fees" from independent grocerymen, who, rather than hire union drivers, were hauling their own provisions; in 1942 he was fined $1,000 for his part in a conspiracy to restrain trade among Detroit's wholesale paper companies...
...Fair Dealing New York Post. But last week when the weekly program was telecast, Editor Wechsler was missing. He had been tossed off the panel of editors, presided over by Christian Science Monitor Editor Erwin ("Spike") Canham, by the Grand Union grocery chain, the sponsor. The reason the grocerymen gave Wechsler was that he had become a "controversial" figure...
...first the Germans did not like canned salmon, said it looked like tan shoe polish. I cruised the American occupied area, suggested to the local grocerymen that they put a can of salmon on the counter with some crackers, ask the customers to sample it, tell them of the fat content. Salmon went well after that...