Word: supermarketeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FREEDOM INDUSTRIES currently competes in the supermarket and the electronics business. The Freedom Electronics and Engineering plant employs 33 full time workers, making computer power supplies, and assembling coaxial cable and plastic circuit boards. Opened in October 1968, the plant already has assembly contracts with Digital Equipment Corporation, RCA, and Western Electric, amounting to $800,000 gross sales. Bent on developing the division to the point where it is competitive with similar operations outside the ghetto, Williams predicts that gross sales will double over the next two months...
Spicy Enough. In the beginning, Parks and two employees started grinding out sausages in an old Baltimore dairy. Word quickly spread through the ghetto grapevine that the manufacturer was a black man, and Negroes supported him at the supermarket counters. At present, Parks sells mostly to white people, and about 15% of his employees are white. "I work very hard to run a business, and not a Negro business," says Parks, who has been elected to a second term as a city councilman from a Baltimore Negro district...
...depressing place to live. Co-Op City is dense (200 people per acre). It is relentlessly ugly: its buildings are overbearing bullies of concrete and brick. Its layout is dreary and unimaginative. Right now, residents have to bus their kids to nearby schools and shop in a make-do supermarket on the bottom floor of a garage. Not a spadeful of dirt has yet been turned on a new subway line that will connect the project directly with New York City, of which it is supposed to be a vital part. Even worse, except for some projected excellent landscaping, there...
Munoz, New England coordinator for Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers Union, stayed well past closing time talking with a group of Puerto Ricans from the large public housing project opposite the supermarket. Speaking rapidly and easily in Spanish, he explained that DeMoulas was making lots of money on the Puerto Ricans in the neighborhood, but that there were no Puerto Ricans employed in the store, at least not in the front counters. Munoz, a disarmingly affable Mexican-American, spoke enthusiastically about the pressure the Puerto Ricans could bring against DeMoulas, urging them to help their fellow Spanish-speaking Americans...
...PAST eight months Munoz, his wife and son, and the other four farmworkers have been living in a church-donated house in Roxbury, on a $5 per person weekly allowance from the union. Their task is Herculean--to clear the grapes out of every supermarket, fruit stand, and corner food store in New England. But Munoz is remarkably sanguine about his chances. He claims that the number of grapes coming into Boston has already been cut by about 40 percent, and that all of the major chain stores inside route 128 have been cleared. The fruit stands and smaller stores...