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True Grit. Los Angeles Psychiatrist William Kroger credits Erickson with being one of the first to develop behavioral therapy, which tries to alter behavior patterns without dealing with the unconscious mind. But in addition to his hypnotic techniques, Erickson seems to affect patients through sheer force of personality. He is a man of true grit, who pulled himself through two attacks of polio (after the second, he hiked on canes in Arizona's Kofa Mountains...
Bleeping and flashing at the checkout counters of a Kroger store in the Cincinnati suburb of Kenwood, the new device looks and sounds like something from a sci-fi movie. In fact, it is an experimental RCA computer system designed to speed customers through the counters and minimize chances that they will be overcharged by tired, rushed cashiers...
...system works this way: stickers with an inked numerical code signifying the product, brand, size and price are pasted on all packaged items. For example, Kroger crinkle-cut French fried potatoes, Code No. 010270280. The stickers can be put on at either the producer's plant or in the store. Coded tags for meat and fresh produce are affixed by the butchers or clerks who weigh them. At the checkout counter the cashier rapidly moves the code marks across an optical scanner. This relays the information to a computer, which is connected to a screen and a cash register...
...computer has shortened the check-out line, and by freeing cashiers to pack groceries, has also eliminated the cost of employing separate baggers. Kroger officials seem enthusiastic enough to indicate that the computerized bleeps may become familiar fixtures at check-out counters...
...rate drive called WEO (for Where Economy Originates), earnings for many chains have reached the vanishing point. A. & P. increased sales volume 9% in the quarter ending last May, but it reported a $20 million loss. In its last fiscal year, Finast showed a deficit of $689,000. Kroger reported a 10% earnings dip in its June interim report, and Grand Union a drop of 38%. The war is hottest in the East and Midwest, where A. & P. is strongest. On the West Coast, where discounting has been practiced for years, many chains are in the black, including Safeway, which...