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...arrangement with the Commercial Credit Co., Hughes now offers an easy-payment plan for helicopter buyers, putting them on a par with car buyers. One automobile dealer, San Francisco's Waters Buick Inc., has already got a helicopter on display in its showroom, where any impulsive shopper can step right up and buy it off the floor by plunking down 25%, or $5,625, with four years to pay the rest. There are also lease-purchase possibilities...
...been found in somebody's attic, like Susan Peck, Late of Boston. And there are mountains of dull and dutiful books dedicated to teaching children everything from fishing to fission. Mostly, there are far too many books whose size and gaudy color will no doubt divert the uncertain shopper's eye from the enduring children's classics. But among the 1,600 children's books published in the U.S. last year are a few that are the best in years...
...POCKET SHOPPER. Definitely not yet on the market, but envisioned by Dr. John W. Mauchly, is a miniature computer for household use that will not only make shopping lists obsolete but will also mark the extinction of the grocery clerk and the checkout-counter man. Before going to market, a woman will slip her computer into her purse (it will have an inventory of what she needs in the way of staples and supplies stored in its wafer-thin memory cells). Once at the market, she will plug her computer into a socket in a vacant "delivery alcove" and wait...
Closeness & Surprise. The automobile has so spread out stores and clogged up streets that the only solution is to cluster shops together again, the way they traditionally were, and let the shopper get out and walk. Shopping centers with "pedestrian malls" proliferate across the land. But too many urban planners seem to be still thinking of the automobile, laying out their malls with bleak, wide-open spaces that provide neither pleasure for the sauntering eye nor convenience for the foot-weary shopper...
...edge, grocerymen found it in trading stamps. "Women feel guilty about spending their husbands' hard-earned dough for 'extras,' " says one stamp-company executive. "But if a woman gets her hair dryer or new chair with stamps, she can convince herself she's a thrifty shopper." The "extras" most in demand at the redemption centers are relatively modest items that the average family can acquire in only a few months of stamp saving-steam spray irons (7½ books), bathroom scales (2½ books), wall-mounted can openers (1½ books). But for the truly ambitious...