Word: shoppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this plot, but much of the time Behrman handles it with adroitness and wit. The trouble is that Behrman, a Frederick Lonsdale who reads The New Republic, too often makes sex a mere come-on for ideas, none of which he accepts. He is a kind of ideological window-shopper; or, like Pooh-Bah, a Leader of the Opposition, he feels he must resist what he approves of as First Lord of the Treasury...
...Clarence Saunders astounded the grocery trade by starting Piggly-Wiggly Stores, Inc., in which customers did most of the work, got their groceries cheaply. Receiving a basket at an entrance turnstile, a shopper picked up her own purchases, carried them to the cashier's desk at the exit. By 1923 Grocer Saunders was rich and Piggly-Wiggly was a $7,000,000 corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Enraged at reports of wolfish raids on Piggly-Wiggly, Mr. Saunders once rushed to Manhattan in a special train with "a bag of gold" estimated...
...manager's secretary blenched. The shopper was indeed Daniel G. Sulimov, since 1930 Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic, comprising nine-tenths of the Soviet Union. Before becoming the equivalent of Pre- mier of an area two and one-half times as big as the U. S., he had headed the Soviet commission inspecting U. S. railways, had been Vice Commissar of Transportation. When the manager of Store 134 came cringing into view, Premier Sulimov roared, "Do you call this soap?" and hurled the handful on the floor...
That he is a notorious window-shopper, recently priced Radio City...
...would undersell them was self-evident, for the competitor was none other than Sears, Roebuck & Co., whose famed mail order catalog is indispensable in farm houses from Maine to New Mexico. But far-sighted storekeepers knew that Sears, Roebuck would bring to Chicago's Loop district many a shopper who had never bought there before, hoped thereby to gain more trade than they would lose...