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...have learned to take shoddy service in stride," she says wearily. Even when they speak up and get their money back, consumers often come away with a feeling of being abused. Earlier this month, when a Los Angeles homemaker took back a foul-smelling piece of fish to a supermarket on the city's west side, she got a refund only after answering brusque questions and signing papers. At no time did anybody apologize or give the slightest sign that they regretted spoiling her dinner...
...University of Leicester in England, realized it might be the basis for an important new tool in criminal investigations. Using restriction enzymes as "scissors," he cut the DNA taken from several people into segments and arranged them into patterns that somewhat resemble the bar codes found on supermarket products. The DNA from each individual, he found, formed a unique pattern -- in effect a DNA fingerprint...
...YEAR Whether they thought of it as a rodent or more lovingly as a cuddly bunny, Americans have generally had little taste for rabbit meat. No longer. Lean and less fattening than chicken, rabbit lends itself to a wide variety of preparations, hence its now standard appearance in many supermarket freezer cases and on menus of only moderately fashionable restaurants. Now if only there were a way to stuff the ears...
Behind that admission of public cynicism was a growing crisis of confidence in the functions of Wall Street itself. Over the past decade, the place where American business raises money for its operations and expansion has been transformed into a high-tech, high-volume supermarket in which institutional investors move billions of dollars in the blink of an electronic eye. In all, some $130 billion in stocks, bonds and other securities now change hands daily simply on the basis of telephone calls alone...
Does that sound like the Stephen King of the supermarket rack? The man behind Maximum Overdrive, behind Children of the Corn? Doesn't, does it? Well, that is the opening paragraph to "The Body", the autobiographical story on which Reiner's movie was based. Stand By Me actually glosses over the nuance and depth of King's story. It distills and condenses it into the spoon-fed medium of a two-hour flick...