Word: shopper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...library, the cozy shop draws customers with classics like Pat the Bunny, a section for teens and toys for prereaders. Special events have included an appearance by popular kiddie author Jack Prelutsky, who read his poem Tyrannosaurus Was a Beast to an SRO crowd. "I love it here," says shopper Aida Littauer. "I tell them what I want, and they pick out the books...
...have always been a compulsive shopper. This time, however, I was a bit too compulsive-I signed up for Ec 10 after attending only one lecture. Call that Big Mistake...
...people like to browse, others to skim. Some go shopping with one book to buy, others leave any store with at least four books they hadn't known they wanted to read. With more than 25 bookstores in 10 blocks, Harvard Square has a bookstore for every type of shopper...
...about twice as much in sales as usual. Michael Bozic, chairman of the Sears Merchandise Group, said he found the response "extremely gratifying." But the longer- term question is whether Sears will consistently be able to match the prices of such established discounters as Target and Toys "R" Us. Shopper Nichelle Smith, 20, who went to a Sears outlet in suburban St. Louis last week to shop for inexpensive children's clothing, appreciated the lower prices but wondered whether Sears will stay competitive. Said she: "I'm going to come back and see if this is the real story...
...shopper, a woman nearing 50, pauses before a cosmetics counter. "I'd use anything if it worked," she reflects. "Slug juice, toad spit, eye of newt, anything at all to mummify myself, stop the drip-drip of time, stay more or less...