Word: supermarket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...businesses are also springing up: EatZi's is a Dallas-based HMR supermarket developed by Brinker International that is expanding nationally. For those without time to shop, personal chefs who cook and run are springing into action to save us from a hot stove. "When I come home, I realize we have nothing for dinner, and I don't feel like cooking," says Lisa Bradlow, 33, a publicist in New York City. "It's easier to buy a roast chicken and pop it into the oven. If my husband and I have three home-cooked meals...
...ready-to-eat or ready-to-heat package. "We offer traditional food that people would cook at home if they had the time or the inclination," says Keith Robinson, chief marketing officer at Boston Market. "It's convenient, accessible, pretty affordable and easier than going to the supermarket. Our competition is Mom." Well, not quite. The 1,159-store nationwide franchise hatched a host of imitators that have added chickens roasting on spits and homey side dishes to their menus...
...ordered in a sit-down restaurant get up and go home to be eaten. According to the National Restaurant Association, this year the entire industry is growing at a modest 3% clip, while takeout is expanding at more than twice that, at 7%. "The restaurant has become a prepared supermarket," says the NPD Group's Balzer...
...supermarket is slowly becoming more like a takeout restaurant. With more competitors taking a bigger bite out of their profits, supermarkets are steadily increasing their selection of prepared foods. According to a survey by the Food Marketing Institute, 22% of consumers bought ready-made food from supermarkets last year, nearly double...
...secret has been to knock down the wall between its online business and its 5 million regular account holders, giving everyone access to the entire range of products and services available at the firm. These include round-the-clock, dial-up brokers and technical support, and a financial supermarket that offers 1,500 different mutual funds...