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Most supermarket chains have merchandising committees to figure out ways to present and sell the best of the 150 new products flooding into the market each week. Once, grocers could depend on personal service to push a product; today, with the rise of the self-service market, the business has about 1,500,000 fewer clerks than it would otherwise need. What sells is what appeals to the shopper's impulse: the color, the size, the shape, even the shelf position of the package. Years ago, only comparatively few companies worried about their labels...
...scramble for top space leads to all sorts of methods to gain preferential treatment. Some companies resort to toasters, TV sets and other gifts (though rarely straight cash) to get the edge over competing brands. But most companies depend on their traveling sales representatives to wangle more space for their products. It is considered perfectly legitimate to help store managers "arrange" their shelves, even though the "arrangement" often winds up with a competitor's product buried out of sight and reach. Such sharp practices are gradually dying out because companies can work a much better deal with top management...
...bill passed last week by the House, wants the program to be made a permanent part of national policy, with broader presidential powers and a reconsideration of such hobbling provisions as escape clauses and peril points. To answer protectionists, the report points out that 4,500,000 U.S. workers depend directly on foreign trade, contribute to a trade surplus of $6 billion a year. While "it is unavoidable that some of our imports will compete with segments of domestic production . . . American industry is well able to meet such competition." Trade liberalization "will increase the competitive discipline that is a major...
...countries that depend heavily on one commodity for income, the report has some concrete suggestions to ease the blow when commodity prices fall. It suggests 1) a system of international credits to keep up the purchasing power of a hard-hit nation until prices recover, and 2) a "ceiling" and "floor" 10% above and below the average price of a commodity in a previous year, to mitigate wild fluctuations of commodity prices...
...than two of Texas plus one Indiana, and 99% of the land-much of it faceless tundra-is owned by the Federal Government. Nearly one-fourth of the 213,000 population is in military uniform manning a polka-dot pattern of defense posts, and the rest of its inhabitants depend chiefly on two sources of income: fishing and timber...