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...comic-book sales. As always, success has inspired imitators. B. Dalton and Waldenbooks have begun carrying comics in most of their 1,753 bookstores. Supermarkets, which account for about 35% of magazine sales, still resist the trend, on the ground that comic books attract loitering youths. Nonetheless, the Waldbaum, Pathmark and Safeway chains have decided that Archie Comics are clean-cut enough to be displayed at check-out counters...
...their six kids while I was waiting for the court to give me back my own. I took those kids to school. I bathed them. The judge says I got to prove I'm able to be a fit mother. I got jobs. I was a cashier in Pathmark. I worked from 11 at night to 8 in the morning, and then I took care of Vinnie's brother's kids, which meant I got maybe two, three hours' sleep a night. But I proved something to the judge, and I got my kids back...
...list of individual successes is also impressive. It includes a second-place finish in the 10,000 meters at the Empire State Games in 1984 and a fourth-place showing at the National Pathmark Indoor Classic at Princeton last winter...
...their products, but it cost an additional $59 billion for labor-packinghouse workers, store clerks, waiters, et al.-to get those products from the farm to the table at home or in restaurants. Operating expenses for food retailers have been rising particularly fast. One major chain, Supermarkets General (Pathmark), expects labor, energy and tax outlays to swell about 10% each. Yet supermarket managers complain that competition is so keen they cannot raise prices fast enough to ease the pinch on profit margins...
...Late Show. While persisting in their money-losing efforts to combat A. & P.'s assault, many chains are seeking new ways to boost earnings. One new wrinkle is round-the-clock service, which has been adopted by some or all stores in the Jewel, Pathmark, Arlan's and other chains. They aim to attract new customers while A. & P. and other competing stores are closed. Says Marvin Lerner, executive vice president of Manhattan-based Bohack, which has put its discount chain of Village Stores on a 24-hour schedule: "We've competed...