Word: supermarketer
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PREDICTOR Psychic ''Mystic Meg'' in the supermarket tabloid Globe PREDICTION Fear of disease will prompt Madonna to remarry Sean Penn and become ''the new Julie Andrews of the film world.'' WHAT HAPPENED Sean Penn and Robin Wright had their second child. Madonna starred in Body of Evidence, an S&M bomb...
...Labor Pains "Will Europe Ever Work?", on Europeans' shifting attitudes about labor and unemployment [Oct. 3], suggested that workers can expect to work harder and longer for no additional pay. But what would employees get without extra money? Food at the supermarket? Gas at the pumps? Part of their mortgage? When corporations are in trouble, top management should be held responsible, including highly paid executives. A salary cut would surely not hurt them. It is true that Europeans have the benefit of a social-welfare system, and it is abused by some lazy people. But for generations, workers have been...
...Primetime Live aired a segment charging the Food Lion supermarket chain with the kind of bad housekeeping that would cause Martha Stewart to faint. Armed with hidden cameras, PrimeTime producers posing as food handlers infiltrated several Food Lion stores to expose alleged wrongdoings, including repackaging old chicken with cosmetically enhancing barbecue sauce and falsifying expiration dates. In addition to disturbing footage, PrimeTime aired interviews with seven current and former Food Lion employees who gave firsthand accounts of the chain's unsanitary handling practices. Moreover, PrimeTime anchor Diane Sawyer noted that producers had collected similar horror stories from more than...
...after weather-related disasters. Clarence Madhosingh London Labor Pains "Will Europe Ever Work?," on Europeans' shifting attitudes to labor and unemployment [Oct. 3], suggested that workers can expect to work harder and longer for no additional pay. But what would employees get without extra money? Food at the supermarket? Gas at the pumps? Part of their mortgage? When corporations are in trouble, top management should be held responsible, including highly paid executives. A salary cut would surely not hurt them. It is true that Europeans have the benefit of a social-welfare system, and it is abused by some lazy...
...Mart's move into the inner city has set off a debate in the black community about economic development. Traditional activists see the company as a corporate parasite. "Desperate people do desperate things. People would rather have a supermarket than not," says Jesse Jackson, whose Rainbow/PUSH Coalition is headquartered in Chicago. "But the point is that employment and development must go hand in hand. We need work where you can have a livable wage and health insurance, and retirement...