Word: checkout
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...realistic edge: the soft- drink giant is based in Atlanta and strongly supported the hometown bid to the International Olympic Committee. Sensing a golden marketing opportunity, archrival Pepsi is suggesting to consumers in three losing cities -- Athens, Rome and Melbourne -- that they should register their displeasure at the checkout counter. In a newspaper advertisement in the Australian city, Pepsi declared, "If you don't like the I.O.C.'s choice, make your own." If this keeps up, the committee may have to introduce soda-can hurling as a gold-medal event...
Under Masato the company has overhauled its operations, from the factory floor to the checkout counter. To increase productivity, for example, Masato installed industrial robots that can wind the cores for 4,000 baseballs a day, in contrast to 1,200 balls before the equipment was added...
...know what the real news is. DOLLY PARTON GETS GIANT NEW BUST IMPLANTS!, shrieked a recent issue of the Star, while the Enquirer offered a must-read yarn headlined ED MCMAHON FLIES INTO RAGE. For 16 years the dueling scandal sheets brought blood-and-guts drama to U.S. supermarket checkout counters. But the publishing pugilism came to an end last week when the owner of the National Enquirer, New York City-based G.P. Group, agreed to buy the Star from media mogul Rupert Murdoch for $400 million...