Word: supermarketeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...successful suburban real-estate dealer. William L. Bresnahan Jr., 31, is a dairy distributor, a partner with Joe Saker and his brother John E. Saker Jr., 30, in a 14-horse stable. Fair Acres Farm in Freehold, N.J. The Saker brothers also own a franchise in a supermarket chain. Their father, described as too ill and elderly to make the trip, owns the fifth share in the winning ticket. The sixth partner? Bresnahan's father, also too ill and elderly to make the trip. The seventh? His name was not immediately disclosed...
...Mott's and Kellogg's. Warhol himself, with help, squeegeed the color onto the boxes, wrapped them in brown paper to be carted to the gallery, and planned their arrangement in towering tiers. Lest viewers think it's just another Saturday morning outside the local supermarket, he made their prices memorable: $300 and up-per box. Through...
...other recent incidents, Berkeley, Calif, demonstrators filled supermarket carts with food, then abandoned them in the store, left perishables to spoil. Militants in New York City threatened to waste water by leaving their faucets open. Negroes entered a segregated Atlanta restaurant, urinated on the floor, drew from former Atlanta Mayor William Hartsfield a stinging speech on the question: "Is Urination Nonviolent...
What bothers Johnson and many another beefeater is that meat prices remain high even though distribution techniques have radically improved. Once, all cattle were trucked to feed lots for fattening, sold at stockyards, slaughtered, wholesaled and finally retailed-and each middleman sent the price a bit higher. Today, 110 supermarket chains sell almost 50% of all the meat eaten in the U.S. Some operate their own feed lots and slaughterhouses; the rest buy in bulk at favorable prices. By all the laws of economics and common sense, beef prices should be falling...
Market Barons. While the cattlemen's share of the average price per pound of beef has dipped to a six-year low of 45.30, the retailers' share has steadily increased to a record high of 24.90. Cattlemen blame this disparity on what they angrily call "supermarket barons." In fact, supermarkets buy in such large volume that they are practically able to name their own price for beef on the hoof. Says John Fryer, research director of the 75,000-member meat packers' union: "If the A. & P. comes to Swift and says, 'We want a million...