Word: supermarketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...include the spectrum rally, which uses different colors to indicate right and left turns; the idiot's delight rally, which requires the driver to remove all his sparkplugs (or something similar), carry them around the car, and then replace them; the scoreboard rally, which demands a count of every supermarket, etc. on the right and every florist shop, etc. on the left; and the landmark rally, which requires a right (left) turn at every mail box or gas station, or whatever...
...Evening News. Just Looking. Once a month since then, Report has ranged the U.S. scene. One report managed to tell without bragging how the smog was licked in Pittsburgh. How America Shops showed a husband popping bottles into his wife's shopping basket on their way around a supermarket, another woman wandering interminably, "just looking," until she can no longer contain herself and launches into a frenzy of impulse buying. A Report on a fire in the Lutheran church in Sayville, Long Island, and the efforts of the local citizens to rebuild it, moved many British viewers to send...
FAIR TRADE LAW has been knocked out in Louisiana. New Orleans Supermarket Operator John Schwegmann Jr., who persuaded U.S. Supreme Court to rule out Fair Trade on antitrust grounds only to have Congress plug loophole (TIME, March 16, 1953), has finally won his fight in Louisiana, where state Supreme Court ruled that nonsigners of Fair Trade contracts are not bound...
...cart the housewife can move from hardware to florist, from drugs to dry goods. In addition to women's and children's inexpensive clothing, the Keansburg store will offer cameras, costume jewelry, fishing rods, toasters, even outdoor lawn furniture. Five years from now, says Shield, every new supermarket will be a small department store; round-the-clock vending machines will sell such necessities as bread, butter and eggs; merchandise will move out of automated warehouses in 40-case lots. Says he: "You can't have a highly modern production plant with a horse-and-buggy distribution system...
...inventor, Shield used the East Paterson store to try out his patented Food-O-Mat, a block of tiered ramps that feed cans and jars to customers by gravity and save up to 40% of floor space. To solve the traffic problem inside his stores, Shield broke the conventional supermarket pattern of long, parallel shelves and narrow aisles. For his new layout he had architects design short, boxy shelves, spot them in irregular arcs to create broad aisles and thereby eliminate bottlenecks for grocery carts...