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By U.S. standards, Europe's supermarket boom is still in its infant stage. Most of the new self-service stores are not super-duper markets in the giant, U.S. sense, rarely have more than 3,000 sq. ft. of floor space (v. 10,000 for the average U.S. super...
When autumn temperatures fall toward the freezing point, wise motorists put antifreeze in their radiators. Many wise insects do much the same thing, reports Biochemist Fred Smith of the University of Minnesota. What's more, their antifreeze is glycerol (glycerin), a chemical that closely resembles the ethylene glycol that...
Tobacco stands in dozens of U.S. cities last week sported cigarette brands that few U.S. smokers had ever seen. To the amazement of many a dealer, packages of the new brands were snapped up by intense young men with briefcases and suspiciously bulging pockets. Who were the young men? They...
Ever since statistics began to point to some connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer, the world's tobacco industries have been devising ways to cut down the effects of tars and nicotine. Last week the Swedish tobacco monopoly settled on a fractions-of-an-inch policy: the last...
Others are not so optimistic. The supermarkets and chains have become so powerful that they are often in a position to force a middle-sized producer to turn out a private label for his product for them at a lower price, or they will not buy from him at all...