Word: supermarketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United Farm Workers claim that Varsity Liquor, Broadway Supermarket, Thrifty Liquor, Sage's and several other Cambridge liquor dealers have either taken Gallo off their shelves or will not order more when current stocks are depleted...
Good Shepherd Church of Alexandria, Va., was once the embodiment of suburban Catholicism. The cavernous cinder-block building itself resembled a supermarket plunked down amidst an affluent neighborhood by some careless zoning board. The nine-year-old parish's membersinp list, drawn largely from the close-cropped and constantly changing ranks at the Pentagon and nearby Fort Belvoir, had initially been compiled from the local welcome-wagon files...
...Prices of the foods that the poor depend on have risen far faster than the consumer index as a whole in the past year. Rice is up 90%, sugar 132%, bread 27% and milk 20%. The aged on fixed incomes are often devastated. "I walk into the supermarket, pick up a few oranges and lemons-and then count my money to see if I have enough," says Leah Binder, a 72-year-old Los Angeles widow...
...tears. Other students on the school bus had attacked Devine's performance as coach, and then showered her with spittle. "It's all so personal," says Jo Devine. "It's hard to escape the abuse when even the boy who carries out your groceries at the supermarket tells you that Dan is a lousy coach...
Other actions planned for these next few months include: continued boycotting and leafletting against stores selling non-union lettuce, grapes, or Gallo wine, allegedly including the Harvard Provision Company and the Broadway Supermarket; support of Harvard workers' demands; organizing women's sections for courses; and forming a study group on socialism and feminism...