Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officers of a C.I.O. retail clerks' union spent $52,000 from welfare funds to buy themselves lifetime annuities...
...trustee of an A.F.L. retail liquor clerks' local drew $100 from the welfare fund every week or so for lunches, cigars and liquor...
...price war with discount houses. In St. Louis the three biggest department stores slashed prices to discount-house levels, but continued such services as free delivery and charge accounts. In Detroit and other cities department stores are also cutting prices to meet the discounters' competition. Predicted the National Retail Dry Goods Association: the price wars will spread...
COFFEE PRICES, pulled down by an abrupt slide in wholesale prices (TIME, Aug. 30), dipped below $1 a pound in most stores. Retail prices may go even lower because U.S. Agriculture Department crop reporters predict a surplus next year...
Frozen Flapjacks. Prebaked, frozen pancakes, which are warmed up in an electric toaster, are being tested at retail for the first time by Chicago's Quaker Oats Co. Price: 19? for a package of four...