Word: supermarketing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slaughtered under rabbinical supervision, has to be drained of all blood before being eaten-which means soaking it in cold water for half an hour and then salting it. In some urban areas, shopping at least is no longer difficult. Nearly 500 food companies produce more than 2,500 supermarket-stocked items that have been approved as kosher by the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations-including milk substitutes made from soybeans that can be used with meat dishes. Says Mrs. Rachel Weiner, 29, of Chicago: "With all the substitute products today, there's nothing to keeping a kosher house...
...increasingly crowd the ugh-plugs off the air. But that is not enough. Another prospect is that the networks, goaded by viewer resentment, will move closer to the European scheme by having fewer but slightly longer commercial breaks. At present, with 9,000 new items appearing on the supermarket shelves each year, sponsors have started "clustering" cramming more but shorter messages into the same time space. In the past two years alone, the number of products shown on TV has increased by about one-third, most of them in ten, 20-and 30-second shots. There will also be more...
...increasingly crowd the ugh-plugs off the air. But that is not enough. Another prospect is that the networks, goaded by viewer resentment, will move closer to the European scheme by having fewer but slightly longer commercial breaks. At present, with 9,000 new items appearing on the supermarket shelves each year, sponsors have started "clustering"-cramming more but shorter
...addition to operating 371 supermarkets across the U.S., Jewel now serves those needs with some 240 other outlets, ranging from ice-cream parlors and drugstores to huge "family centers" selling food, pharmaceuticals and phonographs. Such diversification has brought Jewel healthy profits while a number of more tradition-bound food chains have lagged. Last year Jewel's rapidly growing, non-supermarket operations yielded 24% of its $1.25 billion in sales, and an even bigger share of its $17.6 million in profits. Currently in the midst of a threeyear, $100 million expansion program, the company is adding new stores...
Jewel also began picking up other supermarket chains. It bought Eisner Food Stores (downstate Illinois and Indiana) in 1957, New England-based Star Markets in 1964, and the Buttrey supermarkets in Montana and Idaho two years ago. Moving abroad, it acquired stakes in one supermarket chain in Italy, another in Belgium. Jewel has also sensed a future in smaller food-store operations, is moving rapidly into franchised "convenience" shops and "Chef's Pantry" stores in high-rise apartment buildings...