Word: supermarket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week. Sears, Roebuck and Co., the largest U.S. retailer, launched a new offensive in its campaign to become a major force in the financial services business. In eight stores, from Atlanta to Los Angeles, the company opened the first branches of its Sears Financial Network, a kind of supermarket where shoppers can buy stocks, bonds, insurance and houses, or even open up Individual Retirement Accounts...
...shake the memory of what he has seen. Most of all, he listens to the eight other men on the force and comes to respect them. They have drifted into thankless jobs. One tells him: "Right now I work on the police force, my wife stamps cans in the supermarket, and she makes more money than I do." Says another...
Water was in short supply for days. As taps were broken by angry crowds, the city seemed at tunes on the verge of panic. One evening, the manager of a West Beirut supermarket drove painstakingly along side streets through the no-man's land separating East and West Beirut. In East Beirut, where a sort of normality prevailed under Israeli occupation, he picked up a truckload of bottled water and returned with it after midnight to West Beirut. The next day he sold it at regular prices. As rumors of food shortages spread, people lined up for emergency supplies. Said...
Traveling businessmen should be prepared for some shockers. In Oslo, for example, a Scotch and soda runs nearly $6. A glass of beer in even a modest café is $5. In Osaka, Japan, an expatriate housewife will probably pass the supermarket meat counter once she notes the cost of filet mignon: $78.94 for a kilogram (2.2 lbs.). A white shirt in a fashion able Nairobi clothing store can sell for as much...
...enterprise is oriented toward broadcasters, then VideoJournal aims to reach the industrial market. Founded just seven months ago by a Philadelphia outfit called Media Concepts, VideoJournal has some 200 subscribers (at $35 to $45 an issue) who tune in to such topics as "Trends" and "Production Hints." Supermarket Insights (227 subscribers, $8,500 a year for monthly installments), despite its substantial price tag, looks like the lowest-budget effort of the lot. All stills, voice-over and grade-school graphics, it is the videotape equivalent of a sales manager's audiovisual presentation. Supermarket Insights does not do full justice...