Word: shopper
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...prints its second group of specially selected gifts. These articles have been chosen for both their unique quality and solid practical value. A variety of tastes has gone into the several choices and they are included with the hope that their presence on this page may save the potential shopper from the many hard hours usually devoted to knocking people over in crowded stores...
...Judge Lindley, himself an occasional A & P shopper, also paid tribute to the company: "to buy, sell and distribute to a substantial portion of 130 million people, one and three-quarter billion dollars worth of food annually [the gross at the time] at a profit of 1½? on the dollar, is an achievement one may well be proud of." He granted that many of A & P's actions, "standing alone, are devoid of wrongful character." But he found that Acco was the "rotten thread" that gave A & P's other operations "a polluted colored light...
...Safeway stores, clerks often see a slight, spectacled shopper who isn't a regular customer but looks vaguely familiar. The shopper is Lingan Alan Warren, 60, the $386,000-a-year president of Safeway who spends much of his time checking up on his stores by shopping like any housewife. Says he: "I'm just a customer like anyone else. If I ever forget that, I'm through...
...University secretary yesterday appealed to an unknown Square shopper to return to her a wedding gift, $50 in a money purse, which was lost or stolen on Tuesday...
Holiday Affair (RKO Radio) is an unlikely but likable little romantic comedy adroitly warmed with Christmas sentiment. It confronts a confused young war widow (Janet Leigh), working as a department store comparison shopper in the holiday rush, with a choice of two suitors: a safe & sound lawyer (Wendell Corey) who has wooed her for two years, and a happy-go-lucky toy clerk (Robert Mitchum) who tries to win her in a week...