Word: supermarket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Today, in an entertainment world that moves to Sony Walkman rhythms and Pac-Man blips, Japanese cinema is troubled and timid. The five studios that have survived the national movie recession of the past decade or so-Toho, Toei, Shochiku, Nikkatsu and Daiei-find their profits in real estate, supermarket chains, Kabuki theater troupes and bowling alleys. Most of the 322 films produced last year were roman poruno, or lowbudget, soft-core-sex pictures. The number of theaters is down 68% since 1958, and ticket sales were a pathetic 150 million (down 87%). Even compared with reduced attendance figures...
...Georgians descended on Washington and were overheard whispering at embassy receptions, state dinners and Cabinet meetings about suppliers, shipments and prospects for the year's crop. This attracted the attention of gossip columnists and other riffraff. Soon Vidalias were appearing on the shelves of the Georgetown Safeway, the supermarket of the elite where you're embarrassed to shop if you're not wearing tennis togs or jodhpurs, depending on the season...
Products bought from the supermarket bins are much cheaper. Bulk buttermilk pancake mix in some stores costs 47? per lb., vs. 89? for national brand-name packages; and spaghetti is 47?, vs. 73?. The biggest savings are in spices. Oregano that costs 65? per oz. when packaged, or $1.79 for a small container, is only 35? per oz. when bought in bulk...
Loblaws, a Canadian supermarket chain, apparently first came up with the idea and introduced modern bulk buying last August. Safeway, based in Oakland, Calif, then picked up the barrels and brought them to Los Angeles in February. By the end of this year, some 60 of 180 Safeway stores in Southern California will offer foods in bulk. Ralphs, a Los Angeles food retailer, sells 150 items in ten stores. Pick-n-Pay, a division of First National Supermarkets, headquartered near Cleveland, began last December with one store that sold bulk products. Now there are 19. Says First National Spokesman Terry...
...Safeway," the narrator pursues as far as coffee a dalliance with a beautiful married woman he meets in a Safeway supermarket, only to panic and given her a false apartment number for their intended rendezvous...