Word: supermarketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Also, a $2-$4 increase in term bill will lose significance in the face of the seemingly inevitable $500 increases which roll along every year. Additionally, it is much more convenient to procure toilet paper from a House store-room than to have to run to a distant supermarket when one is in need. In the sake of equality, all students should receive the same services for the same...
...gassed in World War I. Jones claimed his mother was an American Indian, but his cousin Barbara Shaffer says, "He made that up to impress somebody." He was an only child; the three lived in a one-story, tin-roofed frame house that has since been replaced by a supermarket...
...Manhattan's silk stocking district, William Green, an heir to the Grand Union supermarket chain, retained his seat in Congress by defeating Democrat Carter Burden, a scion of the Vanderbilt family. The pair spent $850,000 on the race, about half from their own fortunes, seeking a job that pays $57,500 a year...
...YEARS ago horror stories about the elderly flooded the national media. Pictures of retirees heading for the dog food section of the supermarket surfaced and a cry went out that the nation's social security system was going bankrupt. The cries are mute now, but the state of the nation's retirement income system remains a primary concern for the federal government, the increasing numbers of recipients of old age benefits, and the future contributors to the system...
Price has been the major deterrent. A computer system costs about $20,000 per check-out lane, or $150,000 for the average supermarket-a stiff investment for a chain commonly operating on profit margins of 2% or less. Still, most chains are now testing the systems and are pleased with their performance. The number of installations is slowly growing, with 500 units expected to be in place by year's end and 1,000 by 1980. The surviving equipment-makers are still counting on huge sales eventually, but the wait in line is going to be long...