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...Super-Saver had a key-making machine and computerized check-out. It sold everything from its own brand of moth balls to picnic tables, from gag mugs to ratchet sets. A sign in the window warned customers all summer that Coke and Super-Saver aspirin were on sale only until the end of the week...
...back of his beat-up blue New Yorker. He and his family also owned a Woolworth's tapestry of DaVinci's "The Last Supper." The manager, who wore bell-bottoms over his brown patent-leather shoes, looked just like his picture on the "This is Your Super-Saver Manager" sign above the customer service desk, so everyone knew...
Working only a few hours a week to start. I had plenty of time left over to sun-bathe. Luckily, I could get a 10-per-cent employee's discount on my Super-Saver cocoa butter lotion. Not bad, I thought, until I realized that after taxes my pay would total less than $100 a week. Even with cheap cocoa butter lotion, you can't go very far on that...
...first day on the job, I shelled out 89 cents for a Super-Saver polyester tie. Damned if I was going to stain a real tie with discount spaghetti sauce. Next, I had to get trained. The manager assigned me to John, high-school dropout and expert on stock-boying. John, however, was reluctant to share his expertise, and I was forced to teach myself tricks such as keeping my thumb out of the way of the razor blade carton opener and making sure that all the cans of toilet bowl disinfectant had their labels facing the customers...
Aside from John, I worked with several other Super-Saver regulars. Mary Ellen, a cashier, died her hair blonde twice a year, had a boyfriend she called Bonzo, and was saving up for a Mustang II with a red vinyl interior. Bill, one of the other assistant managers, never really managed, but he drank coffee, ate doughnuts, and leered at the younger cashiers. AT 5-ft., 7-in., he packed away a lot of doughnuts and weighed at least 300 pounds. In contrast, Susan, the head cashier, was 6-ft., 2-in., and thin as a Super-Saver broom stick...