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...markets, offering food on a par with Boston Market. Fleming has also begun a new market prototype in Hartsfield, Ohio, called the IGA Supercenter. At the 62,000-sq.-ft. grocery behemoth, shoppers can drop off their kids at an on-site center and monitor them on TVs set up in the aisles; pick up traditional food or a hot entree, or take a lesson at IGA's cooking school; withdraw money at the store bank; pick up their dry cleaning; and send a fax at the business center...
...more popular, and the effect on even the top shows is startling. In the 1963-64 season, those dread Hillbillies averaged a rating of 39.1--in other words, they were being seen by 39.1% of all households with television sets. Back then, 90% of the nation's households had TVs, so more than a third of America was watching Granny tangle with Mr. Drysdale. In later years, when TV ownership was more widespread, All in the Family scored in the 30s, as did Laverne and Shirley, Happy Days and The Cosby Show...
...EVERYDAY LIFE 81% of the population has a VCR in the home There are 2.3 TVs per household 20% of the U.S. is connected to the Internet lb. of sugar $0.43 dozen eggs $1.12 lb. of butter...
...background crooning of well-known blues artists is supplemented by closed-circuit TV, which explains each track's history and offers a picture of the album for those who the music inspires to dash across the park to Tower Records after dinner. While the presence of TVs seems incongruous at first, the programming adds a more intellectual note than the sports game currently showing at Grafton or Brew Moon. With tap beers ranging from $3 to $4, a stop at the bar is well within student budgets...
...recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was full of new TVs in all shapes and sizes, but the most tempting were the slim-screen plasma displays. Made by Fujitsu, left, and Philips, the 42-inchers offer twice the sharpness of today's sets--perfect for movies in the new DVD format...