Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...printed by means of a chemical process built into the film. And it all happens within seconds after the picture is pulled out of the camera, so that there is no waiting to take the next shot. Price: from $119.95 at discount houses to $139.95 at most conventional retail stores. An eight-picture color film pack will cost from $4.88 to $5.95, black and white...
...companies now realize that their thousands of service stations offer ideal retail locations for one-stop shopping and tourist centers. Sohio and Jersey Standard are setting up roadside restaurants that cook instant meals in microwave ovens. Pure Oil plans a chain of 80 "TOURest" centers that will include a motel, an Aunt Jemima pancake house (for which it owns the franchise) and filling stations. Gulf Oil plans to invest $40 million in the Holiday Inns motel chain, and American Oil is installing automatic dry cleaners on its properties. Atlantic Refining is putting up garden-supply centers and shops that sell...
...tight budgets and tight lips, regarding secrecy as its greatest strength and publicity as comfort to the competition. But competitors know that "C. & A." has annual sales of some $700 million, its own private-label factories, countless real estate holdings-and one burning ambition: to break into the U.S. retail market in grand style...
...Benton Harbor, Mich., and comfortably feel the battle won. Sales -more than two-thirds from making Kenmore "white goods" for Sears (which owns 19% of Whirlpool)-hit a record $465 million last year. Earnings were rising smartly. Appliance Buyers Credit Corp., Whirlpool's 80%-owned subsidiary to finance retail sales of its appliances, turned a profit for the first time in 1962. It earned...
...list prices mean little in discount houses, and even retail outlets have begun to crack color TV's long-held "$400 barrier." Sears, Roebuck recently reduced its 21-in. Silvertone sets from $449 to $388 and is selling them for as low as $365 in the hotly competitive Buffalo area. So far this year, Admiral has cut some prices by $95 (to a low of $399.95) and trimmed its charge for a year's service on color sets from $100 to $69.95, while quality-conscious Zenith has pared its lowest prices...