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...Rabid anti-Communism analytically divides the globe into the Free World/Communist Bloc opposition Kelman's elders have seemingly abandoned. Because the Communist enemy is so evil for Kelman, it follows that America must be virtuous, in small ways as well as substantial ones. Witness: Kelman enters an East German supermart and the place looks dull. "I longed for something all my righteous ideas taught me to believe was worthless or even insidious--bright American packages," he laments...

Author: By Dan Swanson, | Title: Socialists and Grasshoppers | 2/23/1973 | See Source »

...complex will be the latest of 30 White Front stores that Interstate has strung through California. It will also be the showplace of a fast-growing nationwide retailing chain that now numbers 114 stores, including Topps stores through the East and Midwest and toy-selling Children's Supermart stores in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, as well as 31 conventional department stores in 12 states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: Thick on the Best, To Hell with the Rest | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

...success at Zagreb Fair that Yugoslav government's export-import agency will buy the market's refrigerator display cases, prepackaging equipment, shopping carts and checkout stands for about $30,000, use them to start supermarkets of its own. More than 1,000,000 Yugoslavs trooped through U.S. supermart during 15-day fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Oct. 7, 1957 | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...impulse buyers, many makers have started setting these eyecatching albums on racks in supermarkets and variety stores, hoping that the housewife who hears a song over the air just before she goes out to shop will pick it up along with the groceries. An average record rack in a supermart grosses about $50 to $75 a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Sweet Music | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

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