Word: retailers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ever notice how retail clerks always seem to be on their coffee break when you have a request? Not the proprietor of a compact-disc outlet that opened last week in Minneapolis. The clerk behind the counter boasts an encyclopedic knowledge of the 5,400-item inventory, and never leaves the store. The attendant can't, because it is a robot -- the first to run its own shop...
...neighbor," the 1530-car Binney St. Garage recently completed next to the One Kendall Square retail complex, has prompted area residents to file suit against the city, state and federal governments...
...says the manager, even retail grocers are not permitted to see the parts of the farm where slaughtering takes place. "They don't let you see the actual killing process. But that's just as well, I suppose," Perodeau says...
...cost is huge. A 1985 study estimates that corporations bought 12 percent of the alcohol sold at retail in that year. The cost to the government of deducting all those martinis was approximately $5 billion. Compare that to the $5.6 billion that former President Ronald W. Reagan proposed for child nutrition and food programs in 1986, and you get a sense of the magnitude of the waste and unfairness in the T and E deduction...
...price levels. In Miami, the main gateway for drug smuggling, the cost of a kilo has jumped 44% in the past two months, to as much as $23,000. But for the U.S. as a whole, which consumes three-fourths of the world's cocaine production, wholesale and retail prices have been stable...