Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economy is operating at a very high level, whether measured by employment, by production or by the aggregate of income payments. Furthermore, there are strong forces at work that favor further advances : the greater availability and lower cost of credit, high and rising incomes, a high level of retail sales, and-by no means the least-stable prices...
...better" Planta's chief new ingredient: a chemical emulsifier intended to cut down frying-pan spatter and improve taste. Hastily, Van den Bergh's & Jurgens' tried to recall the estimated 5,000,000 packages that had been distnouted to Unilever's 40,000 retail stores, took ads in 160 Dutch papers telling housewives that they could exchange their improved Planta for the old kind. The ads, signed simply, "the manufacturer of Planta," offered no apology, simply asked customers to be patient if the old Planta was not readily available in their neighborhood stores...
...grocery clerk." Such a bad billing from K. suited the Nixon forces just fine, but last week a rebuttal to the Red boss's insult was put in by an unlikely enrolled Republican. In an outraged letter to Nikita, James A. Suffridge, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Retail Clerks International Association, protested: "It is far better to be a free grocery clerk in America than it is to be top dog in the Soviet Union"- a proposition on which both Nixon and Kennedy could agree...
...RETAIL PRICES will hold firm in fourth quarter, say 84% of 375 retailing executives in Dun's Review survey. But 40% of them are optimistic about an increase in profits...
...profit squeeze has led many firms to diversify in search of new sources of profits. Some retail jewelers are widening their lines to include typewriters, radios, stereo phonographs and small appliances. Shrinking profits have hit such giant food chains as A. & P., National Tea and Kroger, though some others have relieved the pinch by selling more and more items besides food. The Jewel Tea Co. chain (277 stores) has hiked its profits since it added high-profit-margin nonfood items-including brassieres...