Word: retail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Apple has now come to a critical juncture. The company, which last year garnered 23% of the $2.2 billion worldwide market in personal computers, has to fight off a host of aggressive competitors. Tandy Corp.'s Radio Shack, with its 8,400 retail outlets, has captured an equal 23% of sales. Xerox has a new entry that its engineers call the "worm" because they claim that it can eat an Apple. Most important, mighty IBM has joined the fray with its first personal computer...
...reaching the new law is, exactly what someone has to sell to violate the law, Whitehead said that the law will be difficult to enforce and that local police will do most of the enforcement work. State police will handle only larger cases--such as investigations of retail "novelty" outlets which sell paraphernalia...
...Edward J. King signed the bill into Law in December, amending the chapter of Massachusetts law governing illegal drugs. Under the new provision, selling any paraphernalia "intended" for use with controlled substances will land a dealer, independent craftsman, or retail manager in jail for one or five years, depending on whether the items are sold to adults or minors...
...instead of the discount close out sales one might expect the store to be holding, signs indicate increases on many products. Including rolling papers A clerk at the affiliated Liberty Tree shop in Central Square says the increasing cost of Paper makes wholesale and retail prices go up. and he adds. "Don't be surprised to see E-Z [currently $7.50] going for $30 a box after the law takes effect. As local competition decreases with each store that closes, prices can be driven higher and higher, and copies of the law clearly showing the date it takes effect...
...some of the company's attempts at consumer marketing have been disappointments. For example, while a number of aggressive young companies were designing and promoting imaginative and increasingly sophisticated telephone receivers and terminals that could be connected to Bell System lines, AT&T was stuffing its 1,500 retail PhoneCenter outlets with uninspired designer phones in the shapes of Mickey Mouse and Snoopy. Says Rosemarie Tevelow, who oversees Bankers Trust Co.'s investment portfolio of 5.2 million shares in AT&T, the second largest block held anywhere: "I am only modestly bullish on AT&T's future...