Word: supermarketer
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Gone are the days when voter-registration drives consisted of a quaint sign-up table at the local supermarket. With the presidential race shaping up as a tight one, some get-out-the-vote groups are turning up the marketing savvy. At an event in San Francisco in May, the group 1,000 Flowers offered free manicures and nail files to encourage single women to register; the organization hopes to sign up 10,000 women at beauty salons by the end of summer. Other groups are offering similarly creative incentives to vote...
...others, life has become a daily series of calculations. Going to the store usually takes some thought--should you go to the supermarket or the little store inside your complex? Cox says he frequents only malls he knows are owned by one of the Saudi princes, "because they have the money to pay for security." He attends parties only rarely: "I used to go out all the time. Not anymore. I just go from home to work." Most of the time, he prefers to stay home, either finishing work or watching movies. "My social life is zilch," he says...
Dominick's supermarket pays Field Trip Factory up to $300,000 a year to fill the void. On a recent tour, second-graders from Universal School, a Muslim school in Bridgeview, Ill., learned how sugar-laden kids' cereals are placed on lower shelves. Li Schiavitti, 75, the store's star field-trip guide, advised them to reach instead for something healthier--like Toasted Oats, Dominick's house brand...
...world for expats, with London No. 2. I demand a recount. I may not have sophisticated economic data to back me up, but I do have anecdotes. My friend Julian, a lawyer, just moved from London to Tokyo. "Tokyo can be pricey," he says. "You go into a supermarket, put a nice honeydew melon in your trolley and pay ¥15,000, which is $150. But if you avoid melons and Kobe beef it's about the same as London." I doubt it. London real estate is as absurdly inflated as its Page 3 girls. Two months ago a businessman...
...execs to know when they've broken the law. No ruling yet, but the case is giving the law's many foes plenty of ammo. France's Visible Hand Who's better positioned to set prices - the market, or French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy? Consumer groups and even some supermarket chains have long complained that a 1996 law designed to protect small retailers has hiked prices. Last week Sarkozy agreed, but instead of changing the "Galland law," he brokered a deal between retail chains and suppliers that will cut the price of some 4,000 items, from baby food...