Word: shopper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are a few products that have an unmistakably masculine identity: Old Spice cologne and Bull Durham pipe tobacco, for example. Another is Jockey briefs. Thus an unsuspecting shopper who picks up the newest pair of Jockeys might be startled to find briefs that sport a daintily sculpted waistband and distinctly feminine styling. Another symbol of macho marketing has fallen...
...each Sears financial center, customers can choose from a panoply of services. At the desk of Allstate Insurance, a longtime Sears subsidiary, a shopper can have his car, house and family covered. Moving a few steps to Coldwell, Banker & Co., which was the largest independent real estate brokerage company in the U.S. until Sears bought it last year, the customer can get information from a desktop computer about scores of houses for sale in surrounding neighborhoods. The next alcove is Dean Witter Reynolds, the big brokerage firm that Sears also acquired last year. Clients there can put money into stocks...
...first days after the military takeover, Poles were surprised to find grocery shelves stocked with certain items, such as smoked fish and tomato juice, that had scarcely been seen for six months. "Where has it all been?" asked a woman shopper in Warsaw. A clue to that mystery was supplied by a Dutch truck driver, who had taken part in a 150-vehicle convoy to deliver donated food from Western Europe. He was directed to a Polish warehouse that he said contained "more butter than I've seen in my entire life." Poles generally welcomed the government's sudden bounty...
Stores anxiously waited last week to see the first indications of Christmas buying when the season officially started the day after Thanksgiving. Crowds jammed New York's Fifth Avenue, but there were more window-shoppers and browsers than buyers. Said one shopper at Lord & Taylor in Manhattan: "The crowds come in, but they don't purchase anything. This is a day for tourists in New York." Traffic was brisker and customers seemed to be less tight-fisted up the street at Saks, where high-priced gourmet foods and designer clothing were selling smartly...
...mill night before Thanksgiving, the cold has done little to ameliorate the midnight-to-two rush. The flow of down jackets and Harvard scarves is steady, interrupted by the occasional serious shopper who asks where the bread is. A neighborhood denizen is brusque, insensitive to ambiance: "I only come here because it's open later than the bars." Shoppers look only mildly embarrassed when someone they know meets them buying bagsful of Brach's Circus Peanuts. But one student is muttering. "God I hate this place, I really hate...