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Grocer Clarence Saunders, who made and lost a fortune in the '20s with his Piggly Wiggly stores, had hoped to make a comeback with his "Keedoozle" store (TIME, Aug. 30, 1948). The Keedoozle ("Key does all") idea was fairly complicated, but it boiled down to shoppers punching a key...
Last month, Saunders' one and only Keedoozle in Memphis went kerplunk. In eleven months Saunders had lost $170,000. Said he: "Keedoozle was too much for the average mind to comprehend." Besides attracting too few customers, it cost too much to run the calculators and conveyor belts.
Next month Saunders will open a new store called Zizz-Buzz, on the late Keedoozle site in Memphis. Customers will "zizz right in and buzz right on out," shopping the same way as in a supermarket. Said Clarence Saunders: "I am really fed up with gadgets...regardless of how miraculous...
As a penny-pinching Broadway bookie, Hope has only two props to work with, but both of them get worked to a fare-thee-well. One is a forward little moppet (Mary Jane Saunders) whom Hope accepts as an I.O.U. on a racing bet and later adopts as a permanent...
Julianne Jansen '52 will head the 'Cliffe Young Republican Club. Other officers named yesterday are Anne Hazard '51, secretary; Janet Stewart '50, treasurer; and Elizabeth Saunders '50, who was returned to office as publicity chairman.