Word: supermarket
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...chair at the man but he dodged it, stabbed the teacher and kept running, leaving behind him a trail of blood, tears and traumatized seven-year-olds. A boy, the white shirt of his school uniform drenched in crimson, dashed out of the school with several schoolmates to a supermarket across the street. "A strange man came in the school, and I got stabbed," the second-grader told cashier Ikiyo Irie as she laid him down on a piece of cardboard. Finally, two teachers tackled the man and grabbed the knife from...
...this keeps up, food targeted to women may need its own aisle in the supermarket, alongside dairy, paper products and pet supplies. Clearly, some female shoppers respond to food designed with their nutritional needs in mind. But do they really need to buy special oatmeal just because they were born with an extra X chromosome instead of a Y? "Somehow as a gender we've done fine for thousands of years without our own breakfast cereal," says Alice Lichtenstein, a professor of nutrition at Tufts University...
...even been featured in supermarket tabloids...
...York Times, with 2,500 tests on the market supplied by the $400 million-a-year "personality-assessment" industry. In the past three years, I have taken five of these tests in the course of applying for a series of jobs: as a cleaning person, a supermarket clerk and as an "associate" at various big-box stores. No, I hadn't given up on writing; I was doing research for a book on the low-wage life. I was expecting to toil and sweat, even wear unflattering uniforms. But I wasn't expecting to have to share my innermost thoughts...
...alert the advertiser that you want more information. Or imagine catalogs printed on digital paper: just check off the items you want and write down your credit-card number or whatever future payment system takes hold - no need to make a call or go to a website. Your local supermarket could send you lists of everything it has in stock, and you mark what you need and write down the quantities and your address for home delivery. If you're going out on the town, just circle the area you plan to visit on a map printed on digital paper...