Word: supermarketeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laugh aloud at the bickering efforts of farm organizations to solve problems. Most farmers belong to a farm organization only to participate in low-cost insurance programs or cooperatives, which are growing bigger all the time. The Farm Bureau itself is looking into the idea of buying a huge supermarket chain. Farm organizations are big business, as Shuman is aware...
...printed not on the church-news page, but alongside supermarket and department-store advertising. Future ads will describe the denomination's colleges, mission work and role in race relations. "If it works in Washington, and it looks like it will," says the United Church's Communications Director Everett Parker, "we will move it to other cities...
...average supermarket stocks more than 6,000 items, but none has lately been more advertised or scrutinized than the final one tucked into many shopping bags: the trading stamp. As their contracts with stamp companies expired, several big merchants recently dropped the stamps and announced that they would lower prices. Stop & Shop Stores wiped out stamps in 73 New England markets. A & P cut them out in Michigan, and Safeway Stores eliminated them in Arizona. In New York City, two chains with 162 stores between them last month threw out all stamps, plastered newspapers with DOWN GO PRICES...
...Grocers in general have discovered that shoppers are more sophisticated and more mobile than they were a generation ago; housewives now scout all food prices, use their cars and convenient parking facilities to move from store to store for selected items. Many housewives who formerly shopped only at one supermarket now divide their weekly grocery budgets among several. Like the earlier competitive advantages of newer stores, broader product variety or better parking, trading stamps have ceased to be a decisive lure. This fact, along with the advent of discount supermarkets in many parts of the U.S., has begun to cause...
...concept of a "church without walls" leads many a clergyman to set up a ministry in a supermarket, a slum or a ski lodge. The Rev. Reuben Gornitzka, 47, who applauds this impulse, believes that "the church has always tended to ignore the very rich and the very poor - especially the very rich." So his church without walls, run with the backing of his superiors in the American Lutheran Church, is a unique personal ministry to millionaires, film stars, professional men and corporation executives...