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Word: supermarket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked the Wayne Public Market of Wayne, Mich. "A & P is one of the leaders in holding food costs down . . . We regard this threat ... as a threat to us." Groceryman Paul Simpson, who learned his trade behind an A & P counter before he opened his two Atlanta supermarkets, said: "I welcome A & P competition because ... A & P taught me to serve the public better." Wrote an independent New Orleans supermarket operator: "Destroying the A & P would mean eliminating competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Love That Supermarket | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Next month Saunders will open a new store called Zizz-Buzz, on the late Keedoozle site in Memphis. Customers will "zizz right in and buzz right on out," shopping the same way as in a supermarket. Said Clarence Saunders: "I am really fed up with gadgets...regardless of how miraculous and wonderful they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Keedoozle Kerplunk | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Raft, the Ritz Brothers and sundry other notables. He bought a $75,000 stucco "bungalow" in Brentwood, shared a tailor with Lou Costello, dabbled in prizefighters and bought a piece of a supermarket chain. He was anxious to cooperate with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Clay Pigeon | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...Indianapolis Grocer Albert Galyan, who started his supermarket with little more than two nickels to rub together and ran it up to a $2,500,000 business in two years, stirred up a cake to celebrate. When the bakers got it just right, it stood eight feet high, carried 1,500 roses, weighed just over a long ton. Galyan beamed, cut it up into 17,000 pieces for his customers, threw in a $2,800 Frazer as a door prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

After a few announcements of coming attractions, NBC and Du Mont signed off for a while. CBS switched to a Jackson Heights supermarket for a customer-participation show called Missus Goes A-Shopping. While the camera lingered over signs advertising Bab-O, Sweetheart Soap and Mueller's Macaroni, a bubbling master of ceremonies asked some small children to imitate animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Day with Television | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

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