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Most of those interviewed echoed the thoughts of one Coop record shopper, Steve Meyers, a schoolteacher from Marlboro, who said, "He was the greatest and I loved him, but I think people should let him rest in peace...
...women stand in line?" the government daily newspaper Izvestiya asked recently. "Is the desire to preserve a good home atmosphere an impossible feat without the usual tipple? Is it a mistaken sense of bravery or of female weakness?" Last month, according to a privately communicated eyewitness report from one shopper, a woman standing at the front of a liquor store line in Moscow was knocked off her feet by a surging crowd when the shop doors opened. Before she could get to her feet, the spike heel of another woman shopper pierced her skull, killing...
Some readers of Bloomingdale's latest issue are irritated by the commercials. "I was shocked," says Henrietta Santo, director of a Manhattan fitness center. "I don't expect ads in the middle of a catalog." Eileen Adams, a personal shopper in New York City, asked regarding a perfume pitch on one page, "That's not an ad, is it?" It was, and some agencies are skeptical of the trend. Says Advertising Executive Katie Muldoon: "It's confusing, and we wouldn't recommend it to our clients." But contends Agency Head Jo-Von Tucker: "The more prestigious the store the higher...
More serious than the shortages may be the flaunting of privilege by Nicaragua's political bureaucracy. Officials drive trim, Soviet-built Lada sedans while private autos frequently lack doors or windshields because spares are not available. In a Managua supermarket, many of its shelves gapingly empty, a shopper complains that he has been unable to find powdered milk for 15 days. As he talks, a woman waits at a check-out counter with, among other things, a can of powdered milk. Says a third customer: "You see, she has connections. With the right connections you don't lack anything...
...additional saving for the determined shopper is that West European prices generally include a value-added tax, which averages about 15% of the retail price in most places.* To get refunds, the customers usually must fill in a form and send it back to the store after they have...