Word: retail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Retail liquor stores, markets, and bars are the businesses most directly hit by the bill. They suffer not only from the higher beverage prices as a result of the deposit, but the law also requires that they collect, save, and return bottles and cans to their distributors...
According to Square establishment owners, especially bar owners, the biggest problem they have has since the bill took effect is the lack of storage space for the empties. To collect their refund the bars and retail stores must keep all the empty returnable containers on the premises until a distributor picks them up during delivery of an order, and records the amount owed the retailer...
Another major problem facing the Harvard Square businesses is the extra time and manpower required to collect, sort, and pack the returnable containers for the distributors to pick up. Retail stores must do the sorting all day since they are required by state law to accept returns during all business hours. Bars usually collect and pack the used containers after closing each night...
However, the majority of the retail stores and bars in the Square see no significant difference in profits or in customer business as a result of the bill...
...Durbin, while Harvard's President Bok has not acknowledged the Princeton professor's achievement. Bok succumbed to advanced tennis technology when he switched to the Prince Graphic, the first of the large-headed, large-sweetspot rackets, which has already been adopted by many top pros and whose retail cost is only slightly less prohibitive than the Durbin...