Word: stores
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enters a schizophrenic barber shop. The single aisle has counters on either side: one sports old-fashioned toiletries, while the other is a condensed CVS. This is the place Harvard gentlemen shop for for an elegant shaving-cream brush (real beaver-fur brushes sell for $40 to 100). The store will also satisfy any student obsessed with hair care: over forty different hairbrushes are discreetly displayed behind glass...
...employee of a business on Mass. Ave. in Central Square reported that at 6:45 p.m. a black female attempted to steal approximately 20 pairs of pants by placing them in a large plastic bag. An alarm sounded when the suspect tried to exit the store, and she fled as employees tried to stop her. The merchandise was recovered...
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...chief beneficiary of the boom is Whole Foods Market, whose 900% growth in the 1990s has produced a billion-dollar juggernaut with 78 stores in 17 states. Whole Foods rose to dominance in a three-year buying spree during which it acquired New England's Bread and Circus, North Carolina's Wellspring Markets and California's Mrs. Gooch's. Last year the company swallowed its biggest rival, the 22-store East Coast chain Fresh Fields, leaving Whole Foods and Wild Oats Markets, based in Boulder, Colo.--one-quarter its size--as the only two national natural-foods chains...
...friendly culture will soon be put to a severe test as a second wave of competitors emerges. In Boston, where Whole Foods has held sway with its five Bread and Circus stores, Star Markets, a billion-dollar conventional chain, has recently opened four natural and organic Wild Harvest supermarkets. Meanwhile, Wild Oats, while not as large, grew 75% last year and looks to become a formidable rival. In spite of that, Mackey still sees supermarkets as his main competition: chains like Albertson's and Safeway have vastly increased their natural-foods offerings. Such chains, however, may actually help organic stores...