Word: supermarketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...locations more than 50 miles away from a bank's main or branch office. In addition, small bankers, worried that big banks and S and Ls will win away depositors, are backing two bills in Congress that would severely restrict deposits and withdrawals in the supermarket...
...said everything was closed, even though somebody just got a drink from him. So I went back upstairs and took a sixpack of Pepsi from behind the counter. I hid it in the bushes, went past about five honky marriage chapels and brought some food at a 24-hour supermarket...
Image and Sales. Even before Scott's arrival from an Idaho-based supermarket chain that he headed, A. & P. had been working slowly toward improving its image and sales. In each of the last five years it has closed between 200 and 400 stores, mostly small, marginal operations. Last year it opened 113 large stores, many of them in suburbia, and it now has 160 more in the planning stages. Scott is already talking of building a string of "superstores" that will contain drug departments and general merchandise sections along with the usual meat and potatoes. Says...
...Seashore in 1961 insured the tourist trade during the summer by protecting the beaches and ponds of the Cape, but after Thanksgiving, few visitors are attracted; the motels, shops and restaurants close, and unemployment soars. In the winter, food stamps become a common sight in Wellfleet's First National supermarket and the number of welfare recipients and those on unemployment climbs...
With dogged zeal, Alderman William Singer, 34, has visited every public school and transit station and nearly every supermarket, bowling alley and bingo parlor in Chicago during his 16-month campaign to defeat five-term Mayor Richard Daley in next week's primary. At many of the stops, city employees-among them transit workers, policemen and firemen-have been sidling up to offer encouragement to the maverick Democrat. "Lotsa luck, Alderman. We're with you," are words often heard. That people who owe their jobs to Daley's political machine would even cautiously express such support...