Word: supermarketer
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...marketing whiz named Jim Matson. Jim invented Heartland Natural Cereal, the first mass-market granola, which came in a sepia-toned box. It was a brilliant response to growing public nostalgia and a desire for "natural" products in the 1970s. His favorite pastime was to walk down a supermarket aisle sensing the products that weren't there. No doubt, if Jim took a stroll through the American supermarket of ideas today he would find some compelling products missing too. In a poll of voters conducted by Democrat Diane Feldman, who worked for John Kerry last year, 72% agreed that...
...Laventie and neighboring Fleurbaix, where the nutrition program also runs, has been an ultraslim 1%, one of the lowest rates in the country. Families, too, benefit, as children teach their parents what a healthy, well-balanced meal looks like. "When I go with my children to shop at the supermarket my daughter will look at the label and advise me what is and isn't healthy, and why," says Patricia Vanecloo, headmistress at St. Joan of Arc and mother of two students there...
...service, according to Fumiko Hayashi, 58. "The key is listening to your customers," says the master marketer, who honed her retailing philosophy over nearly three decades at Honda and as president of BMW Tokyo. The new chairman and CEO of Daiei, one of Japan's largest department-store and supermarket chains, will need all that sales savvy to reverse the ailing giant's fortunes. Hayashi must prove she has the same touch in the rag trade that she had selling ragtops. --By Jim Frederick
...then there is her husband, a one-man supermarket tabloid. A few weeks ago, the New York Post ran a photo of Bill Clinton leaving a local restaurant with an attractive woman, and the political-elite gossip hounds went berserk. Prominent Democrats-friends of the Clintons-were wringing their hands. "Do we really want to go through all that again?" one asked me. I don't know-should the sins of the husband be visited upon the wife? Absent any evidence, the former President should be considered guilty until proved really guilty. But there is another problem: What role would...
...from a cheap supermarket paperback, “American Prometheus” is an exhaustive 600-page biography of the fascinating J. Robert Oppenheimer ’25, remembered by history as the “father of the atomic bomb.” Journalist Kai Bird and Tufts professor Martin J. Sherwin track the scientist from childhood to death, thoroughly charting his rise and fall through interviews, letters, and transcripts. After following Oppenheimer’s path for a quarter-century, the authors will return tonight to their subject’s alma mater, speaking...