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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have often wondered how a man in his early 30s (I am 31) would stand up under such intensive grilling, and I was heartened by Reid's sensible, forthright answers to difficult questions. Young Ogden Reid should do well in young Israel...
Sick? The Douglas humor more often than not is of the "sick" variety-or, as a colleague put it, "his jokes need Blue Cross." One chapter is called "India, or Put the Cobra Back in the Basket, Mother -There'll Be No Show Tonight." Another begins: "Early this morning, somewhere in between my orange juice and my No. 1 concubine, I got to thinking about Toynbee Doob . . . He had an extra pinkie on each hand. When Toynbee drank tea he was the politest bastard in the county...
Supermarkets often shunt private labels to bottom shelves, place their own house brands at eye level. National brands are often stocked in insufficient quantities, and money from national-brand cooperative advertising has been known to find its way to advertise private brands in local newspapers...
...shift to private labels has often been aided by the national-brand makers, who offered profit margins so small that supermarkets were forced to turn to private brands. "Take the case of detergents," says pro-national-brands Paul Willis, president of Grocery Manufacturers of America. "There's as much as a 40?difference in price on some sizes at the distributor's level." The reason: manufacturers with more capacity than orders take on a job of putting out a big-volume private label without allocating their production costs realistically...
Others are not so optimistic. The supermarkets and chains have become so powerful that they are often in a position to force a middle-sized producer to turn out a private label for his product for them at a lower price, or they will not buy from him at all. The real fear is that the supermarkets, in their increasing competition with each other, will put such a premium on profit margins that they will squeeze out more and more name brands to the ultimate harm of the consumer, who has benefited most from the new products that have been...