Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memories are mostly ebullient. They include, of course, Ross, that "aggressively ignorant" Midwesterner who bullied The New Yorker into shape. Thurber's portrait remains definitive, but Gill adds amusing embellishments. Once Gill included the Tennysonian phrase "nature, red in tooth and claw" in a "Talk of the Town" item. Ross's notorious innocence in literary matters ("Is Moby Dick the man or the whale?") prompted him to change the reference to "nature, red in claw and tooth." Gill explains as best he can: "His literal-mindedness being what it was, I suspect that he must have worried...
When Mr. Pots and Pans is not on one of his frequent buying trips to Europe, he patrols four floors of highly variegated merchandise. His cheapest item is a 5? cork, his most expensive a $500 copper pot suitable for an entire sheep. Between these terminals is a treasury of the familiar and exotic. Prosaic pepper mills and soup bowls huddle with sophisticated croissant cutters and the French Cuisinart Food Processor, a $160 Rube Goldberg contraption for slicing and pulverizing just about anything. No device, no matter how arcane or costly, sits around for long...
...cost of everything has gone up," Preston said. "The greatest single item is the cost of repair--materials as well as time," he added...
Although the pilot systems now in operation are made by several companies (among them: IBM, National Cash Register Co., Sperry Univac) and have varying capabilities, they all flash each purchase on a screen mounted at the check-out counter and produce a tape listing each item by product and price at the end of the sale. The computers keep track of which items are subject to sales taxes, to cents-off promotions, to Sunday sales bans and even to Food and Drug Administration health warnings...
...human error at the keys of a cash register. The computers also offer store managers a system of instant inventory control and a quick means of checking the results of sales and promotion campaigns. Finally, the system relieves stores of the chore of stamping prices on each individual item, which means that they can get by with fewer $4-an-hour grocery boys. Although the cost of installing the system can run as high as $125,000, industry analysts reckon that automated check-out can save a typical eight-lane supermarket about $40,000 a year. Some chain officials predict...