Word: supermarket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year's poor harvests and rising prices have also hit sugar. Since January, the cost of the sweetener has increased at the supermarket by about 90%, to 88? per lb. Part of the squeeze traces to Eastern Europe, where very heavy spring and summer rains soured the sugar-beet harvest. That has forced both the Soviet Union and Poland to buy heavily in world markets...
...must take more than a recession to dampen demand for English rhubarb and fig preserves or reindeer meatballs from Norway. Though inflation has forced supermarket shoppers to cut corners and frantically clip coupons, gourmet food shops that cater to the sophisticated palate have never been busier...
...fact, his behavior seems oddly reminiscent of the ousted Iranian monarch-his largesse with the nation's new-found oil wealth, for example, and in his touches of self-esteem that some critics say verge on megalomania. Saddam's portrait hangs everywhere in Iraq, from coffeehouses to supermarket check-out counters. Poets eulogize him in the press ("Since there was an Iraq, you were its awaited, its promised one"). Every evening Iraqis are treated to a film of their President strolling through factories, bouncing babies on his knees, chatting with peasants-all to the soft strains of Tchaikovsky...
...good to last, and it did not. In July the tab at the supermarket checkout counter rose 1.6%, and wholesale food prices in August shot up 4.4%, the highest monthly jump in seven years. Moreover, prices are expected to keep right on going up for at least the next six months. Says Rodney Kite, director of agricultural forecasting at Evans Economics in Washington: "Food will be in the forefront of inflation the rest of this year. By December a pound of hamburger or chicken will cost 15% more than it did in June. Pork chops will be 20% higher." Otto...
Other consumers are turning to no-frills food warehouses, where BYOB means Bring Your Own Bags. Safeway's Canoga Park store in Los Angeles until June 1980 was a struggling supermarket, but now it has become a popular food barn. There are no sweepstakes or eye-catching displays to attract customers. The store, moreover, charges 25? if people pay for groceries with a check, and grocery bags cost 3? each. Large yellow arrows on the aisle floors direct customers to Maxwell House coffee at $2.99 per lb., ground beef...