Word: restock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like an average Massachusetts citizen looking to restock the family liquor cabinet, the Cambridge-based Advent stereo Corporation is headed for New Hampshire...
...price, it's a penny." His son Simon, taking over the group of 60 bazaars upon Michael's death in 1907, imported from the U.S. the concept that better working conditions make workers happier and more efficient. The company trusts junior saleswomen to restock their own counters as necessary. Indeed, the company tries to cut out paperwork wherever possible. It employs no buyers as such, but-buying British where possible and often taking more than 50% of a factory's output-goes directly to 550 suppliers. Though some suppliers moan that the company strangles them, they know...
...merchandise during the blackout and had not yet learned whether their personal disaster was covered by insurance. Explained Wiener bitterly: "Our policy covers damage by riots, but the mayor hasn't declared this a riot." Down the street, Polish-born Harry Sperber figured that he had to restock his clothing store or risk losing his whole building. Said he in heavily accented English: "If I close, the building will be empty, and it will be burned down or pulled apart...
...sets of books-one that lists transactions at official prices and is shown to government inspectors, and another with actual prices, usually much higher, that customers pay. Each day shopkeepers rush to the nearest exchange to turn in their pesos for dollars, then buy pesos when they need to restock...
...that quickly blossomed into across-the-board increases (see chart). On the first day of the new prices, many small stores simply closed their doors while owners put new price tags on merchandise already on hand and frantically called suppliers to find out how much it would cost to restock their shelves...