Word: stored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first impression that strikes a customer strolling through the door is the vast amount of space inside the building. The main floor's ceiling height is inhibited only by the top of the third floor, while the second floor is just a glorified walkway along the store's walls...
...Cops in Shops" program is underhanded. Police officers pose as store clerks, shelf-stockers and customers while waiting for an underage person to attempt an alcohol purchase. The idea of undercover police officers camping out in convenience stores is disturbing in and of itself. Further, rather than identifying fake ID's and making their arrests based on that offense alone, the cops allow the illegal purchase of alcohol to take place so that they can tack on further charges. This seems to serve no purpose other than increasing the severity of the punishment that victims of the sting receive...
Reason to Have Second Thoughts: David and Maggie Crain just sold their general store--an area gathering-place for generations--to interlopers from Ohio...
Reasons to Move There: Depot Plaza, where Amish shoppers park their horses and buggies, is a downtown meeting place and festival site. Nice mix of old and new: John's Butcher Shop uses 500 meat lockers to store food for the Amish, who shun electricity at home; sports agent Mark Simpson, who lives here, shows his clients the money via fax or modem...
...Japan the yuppies who regard jerky as a prestige snack prefer comparatively dainty 6-in. pieces. "The healthy Midwestern appetite doesn't apply there," says Jay Link. Russians are just beginning to encounter beef jerky. Link's distributors in Russia take care to place the tubes on store racks next to potato chips and small cakes so that shoppers will know they are snack food. Link products sell for 10% to 15% more than competing snacks in foreign stores--partly because of import duties, but also because foreign snackers are willing to pay extra for what they imagine...