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...Baur's Pringles can helped inspire a burst of innovation in supermarket product packaging. In the tradition of the culinary pioneers who transformed Toblerone into a pyramid, cheese into string and doughnut holes into round Munchkins, here are a few post-Baur supermarket design triumphs...
...tune of $30 billion? Why shouldn't the oil companies pay the federal gasoline tax this summer instead of the people who "hold their breath" every time they pull up to the gas pump? "I know that some people don't have to worry when they go to the supermarket," she said, staring accusingly at the placard bearers, but "there are people who count their pennies as they walk down the aisle," trying to figure out what they can afford. "Don't they deserve a break every once in a while? They haven't done anything wrong ... The oil companies...
...that there is no butter in Japan. It's just expensive because of the tariffs imposed on imports. At a popular international supermarket in Tokyo, Nissin, consumers are complaining because they no longer have access to butter that costs 500 yen ($5) for 250 grams, produced in Hokkaido, the center of Japan's milk industry. Instead, they are confronted with an abundance of French butter, costing upwards of 2,000 yen ($20) for 200 grams. "Even if we order 100 or 200 packages of domestic butter," says Nissin's dairy buyer Katsuhiro Maruyama, "only about six or so actually...
...milk? No? No biggie--just zip to your local supermarket and pick up a carton. Got raw milk? Now that's trickier. Carol Peterson, an IT manager at Xerox, drives almost two hours each month to her favorite farm in upstate New York for her unpasteurized supply. Susan Mueller, a mother of two in Ithaca, N.Y., bought shares in a dairy farm so she could pick up her raw milk and yogurt at a drop-off point closer to home. And they consider themselves lucky. In Manhattan some raw-milk drinkers hire a mule to bring the white stuff...
...time. He was good on most everything else - or was he? He was a little wacky the way he went off on stories, but he really wasn't any wackier than so many other people his age - and those people were still living at home and driving to the supermarket. So I protested. But I also went back to talk to him a little more...