Word: retail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stew Leonard's Farms, a large retail food outlet in Norwalk, Conn., computerized check-out scanners keep watch over the shelf and warehouse stocks of more than 650 different consumer items. Says J. Michael Peters, the firm's financial controller: "These scanners have helped tremendously to keep inventories in line with sales. Before we got them, it would take days, sometimes even weeks, to check out our inventory-to-sales position. Now the scanners provide the data instantaneously...
...flashy fastenings normally retail for $1.50 to $2, or about twice the cost of regular laces. Although they have been particularly popular with girls from eleven to 19, they are now being tied on by many men and women as well...
...rarely reads anything other than computer manuals and hangs out with his pals in a Market Street computer store, often plotting some new electronic scam. Barry (not his real name) currently boasts an illicit library of about 1,000 pirated (i.e., illegally copied) programs worth about $50,000 at retail prices, including such software gems as VisiCalc, the popular business management and planning program. Before security was tightened up, he regularly plugged his computer into such distant databanks as The Source (which provides news bulletins, stock prices, etc.) via telephone without paying a cent...
...year-old from Needham, Mass., sticks to simpler capers: copying Atari game cartridges (retail value: $12.95 to $49.95) and floppy discs containing programs worth up to $250. He trades them with other copyists. Says he blithely: "This is illegal, but we are basically honest people. I don't know anyone who doesn't pirate software...
...visit Barrett's modest, cluttered offices in Nairobi for years before completion to find out how the numbers were running. A few men of God could not resist the temptation to filch advance copies. Now that it has been officially published, the World Christian Encyclopedia, even at the retail price of $74.50, will seem to many people concerned with the state of the world's religions like a real steal...