Word: supermarket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says Kim Sung Soo, executive director of the Korean Produce Association. Since the first shops opened in the 1960s, some 1,000 Korean-run outlets have sprouted around the city. They account for 85% of the independent fruit-and-vegetable stores, and have taken a 20% bite out of supermarket business. "They've forced retailers like us to sell better-quality produce and display it more attractively," says Jules Rose, chairman of Sloan's, a citywide grocery chain...
There have been scattered setbacks, of course. After the price controls were announced, but before they were instituted, many people spent their spare cash to stock up on groceries. "There was a collective psychosis," said one supermarket manager. Some merchants simply ignored the freeze and raised prices illegally. State inspectors have closed down 50 stores, and more than 3,000 phone calls were placed to a government office that is receiving reports of price violations. A few customers expressed their discontent violently. At one store in the city of Rosario, shoppers attacked clerks who tried to hike prices. Some...
...night of July 19--the entire western Maine region was lashed with the most vicious thunderstorms I have ever seen." The novella-length story is an exercise in escalating gruesomeness, and the urgency and awkwardness of the narrative lend credence to the preposterous. So does the setting, a supermarket where a random bunch of shoppers have been trapped by what may be the end of the world. Familiar brand names anchor the incredible; a flying monster invades the store and is set on fire by the beleaguered defenders, finally crashing "into the spaghetti sauces, splattering Ragu and Prince and Prima...
...Sheridan's School for Scandal, the prologue clucks hypocritically about rumormongering: "Caus'd by a dearth of scandal, should the vapours/ Distress our fair ones -- let 'em read the papers." That advice is still being followed at supermarket check-out counters. In Jane Austen's Persuasion, a shut-in hears neighborhood news: "Call it gossip if you will; but when nurse Rooke has half an hour's leisure to bestow on me, she is sure to have something to relate that is entertaining and profitable, something that makes one know one's species better." What the invalid learns is that...
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...