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...shelves in full view of customers. Shopping carts used to be anathema because they bore the aura of discount stores, but now they are being tested in some locations. Salespeople have been ordered to keep displays tidy and to fill in at cash registers to help cut average checkout time from three minutes to 90 seconds...
Taken as a whole, Murdoch's American properties, from the checkout-counter tabloid Star to trendy New York magazine, are thriving. They earned $14 million last year for his $1.5 billion international empire,*despite New York Post losses estimated at $20 million. The Chicago deal also gives Murdoch's News Corp. the Field Newspaper Syndicate, which distributes such columnists as Evans & Novak and Ann Landers...
...player and listen to country and western music: Crystal Gayle, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson. Author Andre Dubus, 47, makes this C & W name dropping seem more than a bid for easy topicality. He writes about people whose lives evoke sad songs and wailing pedal steel guitars. They work at checkout counters, wait on tables, tend bar or fry hamburgers at fast-food outlets. All are somehow stranded, searching for a pattern to their existence beyond the wet circles left behind by their beer cans or cocktail glasses...
...Jack Kerouac: "Gogi Himmelman of the tattered old greenasgrass knickers . . . and the vastiest, most vortical, most insatiable eyes." But savagery is not a one-way street. Updike's Rabbit is roasted by Ian Duncan: "Big Chicken Henderson scoops and whittles at the space beneath his chin with a checkout-counter razor." After caricatures of versifiers like Shakespeare ("To be or not to be; that is the bare bodkin") and novelists like Jane Austen ("Are you not happy in Hertfordshire, Mr. Raskolnikov?"), Editor William Zaranka confesses, "The avowed purpose of both volumes is the same: to fool the sophomores." School...
...what could prove to be the greatest advance in grocery merchandising since the supermarket, the Phone In-Drive Thru market has opened in (where else?) Los Angeles. With the aim of eliminating the cart-pushing, checkout-waiting drudgery of conventional stores, Entrepreneur Ron Cameron, 41, has devised a system by which the shopper does not have to set foot in the store. In return for a $20 one-time membership fee, the householder gets a 33-page monthly catalogue listing nearly 4,000 products from which he or she can order. The customer then phones it in to a computer...