Word: retail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year Häagen-Dazs sold 40 million pt.-its largest retail size-made in a new, computerized plant in Woodbridge, N.J., and this year's sales are running about 50% better. The firm has franchised 89 "scoop shops"-as hand-dip ice-cream parlors are called in the trade-and expects to open 19 more across the country by the end of the summer...
...acquisition of Conoco by even one of the biggest oil companies would not drastically alter the industry's balance of power. In the case of retail gasoline sales, for example, neither a Texaco-Conoco nor a Mobil-Conoco combine would hold more than 7.4% of the market. Observes one Administration antitrust lawyer: "It wouldn't be like Ford and General Motors merging...
...scientific" as Wildmon claims, there is little proof that the would-be censors of CBTV represent any broader group than the conservative Christian organizations from which they were rather casually drawn. TIME correspondents last week found no upsurge in protest calls and letters to networks, local stations, sponsors or retail stores. CBS had received only about 50 letters on the proposed boycott; half opposed the idea. NBC Vice Chairman Richard Salant said he had recently received 'thousands" of Christian brochures, some with accompanying letters, a pattern familiar to networks and rarely taken seriously: almost all were protesting Love, Sidney...
...North Carolina legislature started it all. Alan Schafer, who owned the South Carolina rights to Miller, knew a lot of people would be thirsty by the time they had come clear across North Carolina, then dry as two-year-old tobacco. "He wanted to get into the retail beer business, and this (five feet, if that, south of the state line) seemed an advantageous location," Holliday says. "He was businessman enough to adopt the name," and later invented Pedro, the Mexican figure that serves as mascot, Holliday adds. "He never intended it to get this large." "This large" means...
...token worth 25? into a coin-operated machine, causing a shade to roll up revealing a nude dancer doing her bumps and grinds in a glass booth. But Mount Ephraim had a zoning ordinance that in effect banned all live entertainment, while allowing such commercial activities as restaurants, retail stores and beauty salons. In 1976 the bookstore and its operators, James Schad and Toni Taylor, were found guilty of violating the ordinance and fined $300. Although Schad and Taylor invoked First Amendment protection. New Jersey courts held that the case was strictly a zoning matter...