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...nation's grocery shelves were carefully searched last week for cans imprinted with the telltale code WY2 and WY3-They contained tuna fish packed by San Francisco's Washington Packing Corp.-and they were the worst news the $277 million tuna industry has ever had. When two Detroit women died from food poisoning after eating a bad can of A. & P. tuna packed by Washington, health authorities across the U.S. began searching out other cans of Washington tuna marketed under various brand names. New York officials discovered bad tuna sold under a Dagim Tahorim kosher label, sent inspectors...
...publicity seems to have made many Americans temporarily lose their taste for tuna. A careful shopper could check the lid for the telltale number in a grocery, but it seemed chancier to trust a restaurant or a drugstore counter with a tuna fish sandwich or salad. Food Fair's Howard Miller, the chief grocery buyer for the chain's New Jersey, New York and Connecticut stores, estimated that tuna sales were down 30%. Tuna sales fell in Chicago, Detroit and San Francisco. Van Camp Vice President F. E. Hagelberg saw "no question" but that the scare would eventually...
...with more than 20 house labels that account for 90% of all its merchandise. To get products to label as its own, Prisunic's centralized buying agency roams far and near for deals, bringing back Italian sweaters (one of the best sellers) and Red Chinese tablecloths, Yugoslav canned tuna and Cuban canned lobster. About 55% of Prisunic's sales are in clothing and housewares, the rest in food...
...local synagogue, but he is no sooner out of the synagogue than he is off to steal food from the supermarket. His adventure has all the suspense of Hannibal crossing the Alps. First he jauntily cases the store, pocketing a contest blank: ''Why I like Queen Mist Tuna, in 25 words or less. Maybe I should tell them. Maybe I should write them how to steal from a supermarket. In 25 words." He thrusts some items into his oversized jacket. But a box of crackers is too large and causes a bulge. He is terrified that he will...
...Since tuna consumption in the U.S. has been increasing at a steady 7% each year without any increase in prices (tuna is one of the few foods that cost the consumer less today than a decade ago), stocky Gilbert Van Camp foresees an ever brighter future for his company. His life is wrapped up in fish. His special pride is an 85-ft. power boat, the Vantuna, on which he likes to cruise with his wife and four daughters, aged 10 to 18. What do they do on their cruises? They fish. Boasts Van Camp: "We horsed in 30 tons...