Word: supermarketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average of two new churches to their rolls each week, the denomination is ticking as busily as Ted Adams' own church. "If you see a new building going up," says a real-estate man in Little Rock, Ark., "you can be sure it's either a new supermarket or a Baptist Church...
...each of his competitors buys a rival stamp plan in self-defense, the advantage wears off. Then the old standards of price and quality return, and the merchants are right back where they started -except that they are stuck with paying for the stamps. When one Albuquerque, N. Mex. supermarket decided to drop its stamp plan, it lost 80% of its business in two weeks...
...first full year at National Tea (which operates under the name National Food Stores), McNamara boosted sales from $107 million to $158 million, profits from $913,000 to $2,900,000. In 1953 he squeezed out First National to make National Tea the nation's fifth largest supermarket chain. Last year, when sales reached $520 million, profits $6,500,000, the company became the tenth largest of all retailers...
Give & Take. In South Zanesville, Ohio, burglars cracked the safe at Bob's Supermarket, took $700, rifled through a bunch of papers, obligingly sorted out a burglary-insurance policy and left it on top of the heap...
...total stranger. Sometimes, to get visual proof that he was looking at himself. J.S. stuck out his tongue: the face in the mirror did the same. But J.S. simply could not recognize himself or his wife. This caused trouble, when, for instance, they took different aisles in the supermarket and agreed to meet at the checkout. Since then. J.S. rarely speaks (especially to a lady) until he is spoken to. He would have the same trouble with his children, but they are young enough to be noisy, and he can usually tell them by their voices...