Word: supermarketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suburb of Chicago last week, Grocer Marty Garofalo grossed $25,000 in his bustling, up-to-date supermarket. That was quite a way up from the $200-a-week business he was doing in a neighborhood store four years ago. The difference: Garofalo had become one of the 5,300 members of the Independent Grocers Alliance, a chain of owner-operated stores that, next to the A. & P., is the world's biggest food-retailing organization...
...Atlanta's Southern Stamp Co., which has signed 500 merchants for its stamp plan, expects to have 1,500 before long. In the Rocky Mountain states, where the craze started up again two years ago, it has already reached such proportions that one Albuquerque supermarket manager complains that he is now "in the stamp business instead of the grocery business...
...demonstrate that "freeing butter from support prices would immediately double consumption and completely solve the butter problem," Albert Lowenfels president of Manhattan's Hotel Bar Butter Co., staged a one-day butter sale af a Manhattan supermarket last week. Price set: 55? a lb., the level to which Lowenfels thinks butter would go if left unsupported, compared with the going retail rate of 79?. Total sales for the day: 4, 9751bs., against average Friday sales of 600 Ibs. Net loss to Lowenfels to prove his point: about...
...driving a car now and shopping at the supermarket." Dr. Huggins glows with satisfaction over the successful cases-"I see a man brought in on a stretcher and I write out a prescription, and then see him come in again in a couple of weeks, hale and hearty; or a bedridden woman will get up and go to work. These are great changes...
...signs all over the U.S. touting Harold's. At the casino itself, Ray and his sons follow the best retailing traditions. They don't primarily want big gamblers, instead go after volume from the little fellow who has a few dollars to shoot. Just like any smart supermarket, Harold's tries to keep its customers on the move, tempting them with "impulse buying" gimmicks along...