Word: supermarket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EVENING early last week Marcos Munoz and four fellow California farmworkers stood in front of DeMoulas's Supermarket in Lawrence, Mass., asking patrons to shop elsewhere. DeMoulas had twice broken a promise to Munoz that he would stop carrying grapes for the duration of the national grape boycott, so the farmworkers decided to picket the store until DeMoulas signed a written agreement...
...adversaries--supermarket and picketers--seemed woefully mismatched. The store was brightly lit, cleanly efficient, inviting. Sturdy, serious teenage boys, carrying packages from the outside conveyor belt to the cars waiting along the curb, hustled past the picketers who circled slowly and unevenly along the length of the storefront...
...dozens of other cities. E.G. & G., the company that triggers atom-bomb blasts for the Atomic Energy Commission, has a Negro-managed subsidiary that is building a metal-fabricating plant in Boston's Roxbury Negro district. In San Francisco, Safeway Stores has rescued a ghetto cooperative supermarket from the brink of bankruptcy, even though the store competes with a Safeway outlet ten blocks away...
Starting today the group will picket three stores in the Square: Broadway Supermarket, Superior Market, and Nini's. YPSL says that all three are selling the grapes, in violation of an agreement made last spring to take them off their shelves...
...UNIVERSITIES: "As long as the universities have no conception of themselves other than the supermarket conception, they will have to resign themselves to the fact that people will walk in off the street, buy a box of Wheaties, and walk...