Word: retail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This personnel policy has clearly been a success. Several attempts to unionize the work force have been defeated by margins as high as 3 to 1. Says Jan Timmerman, 22, a parts dispatcher and former member of the Retail Clerks Union: "Union pay was better, and the benefits were probably better. But basically I'm more satisfied here...
...properties without running afoul of antitrust laws. At the same time, oil companies' investments outside of natural minerals have often been bummers. Exxon has reportedly lost heavily on its venture into office equipment, and Mobil has been forced to pump millions into the Montgomery Ward retail chain that it bought in 1976. Moreover, natural resources look like a smart investment. President Reagan's pledge to increase defense spending should increase the demand for strategic materials. The stocks of many mining companies are currently depressed and thus are a good...
Thanks to modern mass marketing, the lunacy quotient may be far higher with the cube. Ideal Toy Corp., which makes the cube under an agreement with a Hungarian state manufacturing company, produced 4.5 million last year (retail price: $6 to $10) and expects to sell far more in 1981. Other companies are manufacturing and distributing versions of the cube, while pirated editions are being turned out in Taiwan and Hong Kong...
...enough away from home that my friends would not get to enjoy my plight. I looked forward to my late-night commutes--taking on the open road in my parents manual Toyota. The store itself was, as its motto suggested, "not your average drug store." Some retail genius had decided to try putting all the department stores and drugstores in New York out of business. The result was a Woolworth's with the lunch counter removed, a prescription counter put in, and the walls repainted a sickening yellow...
When the counterfeit currencies began appearing in local retail stores and restaurants-at least 36 fake bills were spent in all-somebody called the cops. (Finally even the U.S. Secret Service joined the investigation.) Allentown police arrested the bill passers-but not the two high school boys who had created the bogus scrip-and turned their cases over to juvenile authorities. The police at least gave the budding young printers good marks for their technically criminal craft. Said Lieut. Ronald Neimeyer: "The bills looked good. The quality and the color were not great, but they were absolutely perfect in every...