Word: shopper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under Straus, Macy's has never been a one-man organization. Nonetheless, just as the Macy's customer has become the prototype of the shopper, Straus has become the archetype of the shrewd retailer. Straus zeroed in on what he called his "bull's-eye" (middle-income) clientele, liked to stalk around the floors to check on the sales people and inspect the merchandising for taste...
With 73 parties to choose from, Italy's general elections last week seemed to offer something for every political shopper. The candidates represented all political brands from neo-Fascism to Communism. Yet, obliged by law to go to the polls, 1,000,000 Italians rejected the lot and cast blank ballots-the highest no-to-everybody vote ever registered in Italy. Amid all the statistics to come out of the election, this was the most easily understood, and perhaps the most significant...
...contrary to our revolutionary process, and 66% of their customers are antisocial elements." All other private businesses were ordered either to submit to nationalization or to wind up their affairs and close down. Castro even singled out for condemnation the coleros (line standers), who for a fee take a shopper's place in the queues at every store. For good measure, he also banned state businesses that were "frivolous and foster antisocial attitudes," including the national lottery and cockfighting...
Taipei, which has few cultural monuments apart from the great collection of Chinese art in the National Museum, has gained R & R status from the complaisance of its girls and the excellence of its food. Hong Kong is the shopper's paradise ("the world's biggest PX," as one R & R-er described it); it is thronged with purposeful G.I.s looking for camera and tape-recorder bargains offered by its freeport status, and perhaps an instant custom suit for $35 ordered and fitted within 48 hours. Hong Kong is also the most popular R & R center...
...some inventive publisher will simply order up a six-foot-long slab of a book and put legs on it. That will solve the problem of what to do with coffee-table volumes. They are just as massive as ever this year, and a little more expensive. Still, the shopper who cannot content himself with giving just a good novel, biography or history (heretical thought!) will find an imposing selection of Christmas books that are as satisfying to read as they are to look through. Among the best...