Word: stores
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...Gelson's Markets, an upmarket grocer in Los Angeles, shoppers can order a brick-oven pizza or a chinois chicken salad at an in-store Wolfgang Puck's To Go and dine by a roaring fireplace in a cozy corner of the market--a move that would have once seemed about as down-market as getting ready for a date at the makeup counter at Macy's. The Ukrop's chain, based in Richmond, Va., has been selling prepared meals since the mid-'80s. Today 45% of store space is devoted to selling 130 takeout items, which are freshly prepared...
...cooking known as Thanksgiving seems doomed. A Boston Market survey last year reported that 27 million Americans bought some prepared food for the repast. Charles Webre, 35, an ad executive in New York City, and his clothing-designer wife Priscilla, 35, spent $400 last year for a 12-course store-bought Thanksgiving. "I felt like I cheated," says Charles, who presented the meal on the family china. "I work hard, we have two kids, and my wife is stressed out. We believe in traditional-food values, but we don't have the time to do it ourselves." For harried Americans...
...going to have to choose between competing technologies. Did you bet Beta or VHS? Did you do Windows or bite into Macintosh? What call did you make on cellular vs. PCS phones? The next coin toss is in photography, in which a new line of digital cameras that store pictures on memory chips rather than film is fighting it out with Advanced Photo System models, an innovative take on traditional 35-mm film...
...hope for. Elph just looks real cool, and it fits into a shirt pocket. "The design had much more impact than APS," admits Ted Ando, general manager of Canon U.S.A. Inc.'s camera division. Cameramakers have got the message, and a slew of Elph-licates are headed for store shelves...
...ties older than you. Talc is powder you put on after you shower. Talc feels very nice. It's soothing and it absorbs water and it smells nice. In fact, go to a store and buy some talc...