Word: nonfood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Consumer Price Index in August declined .1% from the July record to 124.8% of the 1947-49 average, the first decline in the index since last February. Primary reason: a .9% drop in food prices, which made up for an average increase of .2% in nonfood commodities and services...
...prove successful, C-318 will bring a vast expansion of the aerosol industry by making possible a big new pantry of liquid-gas-dispensed foods such as frostings, sandwich spreads, sauces and syrups. Until now, aerosol foods have been slowed by the fact that the liquid gases used in nonfood products have been ruled out by the Food and Drug Administration. (Compressed gases are now in use in a few food products but often lose their pressure before the food is exhausted, though recently developed compressed nitrogen shows promise of whipping the problem...
...Shield, the big change in super-marketing is not in functional display, but in new lines. To a conventional grocery in Keansburg, N.J.. Shield is now building a 20,000-sq-ft. addition that will sell only nonfood items. With one shopping cart the housewife can move from hardware to florist, from drugs to dry goods. In addition to women's and children's inexpensive clothing, the Keansburg store will offer cameras, costume jewelry, fishing rods, toasters, even outdoor lawn furniture. Five years from now, says Shield, every new supermarket will be a small department store; round...
...lively merchandising it yields first place to no one. It was the first big supermarket chain to mechanize food shelves, first to try trading stamps in the hotly competitive Metropolitan New York market. When it adds clothing departments next month, Grand Union will give more space to nonfood items than any other big chain. By moving beyond the traditional grocery lines into dry goods, readymade clothing and home furnishings, Lansing Shield has brought about a sharp change in supermarketing, and made Grand Union one of the fastest-growing chains in the nation...
Last week the Commerce Department's index of wholesale industrial prices (nonfarm, nonfood products) showed the amazing stability of current industrial prices. The new figure of 115.7 (1947-49 = 100) was the same as a month before and only 1.2 points above the year-ago level...