Word: shopper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best reason not to want a reproduction is that a careful shopper can still find original Picassos for under Rockefeller's price of $650. Not the same piece that Rockefeller offers but of the same caliber--you can own an original and save a little money as well...
...stood in front of the record rack at the Coop, "DEVO" splashed in big letters on its shoulder. As I looked over the latest leavings of the record industry, I glanced to my left to see how many people, like me, had mistaken the advertising display for a fellow shopper before realizing their error. Many did; but the most memorable was the middle-aged matron who bumped into Mr. Devo, courteously said "Excuse me" to him, and went merrily...
...farm income is expected to hit $25 billion this year, almost 25% over 1977 and the third highest on record. But the purchasing power of those dollars is no higher than in 1969. Farmers who raise the grain and cattle curse inflation as vehemently as does the shopper grumbling about the price of bread and steak...
...soup cans to the covers of TIME magazines sold in the U.S. The UPC was to be the core of a system that would not only keep up-to-date records on inventories and prices, but also eliminate cash register errors, since check-out clerks would tot up a shopper's bill by merely passing the purchases over an optical scanner capable of "reading" the code. By now, fully 85% of all the merchandise bears...
...freezer for a sandwich dubbed "Ham Snacktaculars" and a stuffed tiger from the health food store for naming it "Eaton Wright." Other Haley coinages include "Blendelicious" for a multiflavored ice cream, "Purrsnickety" to describe a fussy cat. There is also a word technique known as "advanced merging," as in Shopper + Opportunity = Shoppertunity. Mrs. Haley once won six classical record albums for that...