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...Cambridge, Mass., Bodybuilder Vinny Greco, 31, scoffs at what he views as the promise of instant fitness promoted by flashier health clubs: "It's like fast food. It's a fast workout." Greco, a former runner-up in the Mr. New England contest, revels in the supermarket of muscle machines that he manages. "It looks like a gym out of Rocky, "he says. "It's got a lot of character." With a solid 205 lbs. compressed on a 5-ft. 8½-in. frame, so does Greco...
...they do business and even the way they are organized. Brokerage houses, banks, insurance companies and even credit-card firms have gone into a kind of mating frenzy, merging left and right and creating new organizations with names like Shearson/American Express and Prudential-Bache. By offering a "supermarket" of financial services, these firms permit an investor to pick up stocks along with auto shocks at his local Sears, to write checks and sell shares through a Merrill Lynch Cash Management Account and to have his Visa transactions recorded along with his stock trading...
Secretary of Agriculture John Block sought to defend the current level of food stamp funding by showing that a family of four could subsist on a $58 allowance for a week. Surrounded by a flock of aides and reporters, he and his wife pushed a cart through their local supermarket picking up provisions recommended by nutritional experts. The millionaire farmer reported that there were only a few minor hitches in living on this allotment for a week: "The family crisis was when the dog ate the biscuits. But that could happen to any family, rich or poor." Critics countered that...
...Today, in an entertainment world that moves to Sony Walkman rhythms and Pac-Man blips, Japanese cinema is troubled and timid. The five studios that have survived the national movie recession of the past decade or so-Toho, Toei, Shochiku, Nikkatsu and Daiei-find their profits in real estate, supermarket chains, Kabuki theater troupes and bowling alleys. Most of the 322 films produced last year were roman poruno, or lowbudget, soft-core-sex pictures. The number of theaters is down 68% since 1958, and ticket sales were a pathetic 150 million (down 87%). Even compared with reduced attendance figures...
Loblaws, a Canadian supermarket chain, apparently first came up with the idea and introduced modern bulk buying last August. Safeway, based in Oakland, Calif, then picked up the barrels and brought them to Los Angeles in February. By the end of this year, some 60 of 180 Safeway stores in Southern California will offer foods in bulk. Ralphs, a Los Angeles food retailer, sells 150 items in ten stores. Pick-n-Pay, a division of First National Supermarkets, headquartered near Cleveland, began last December with one store that sold bulk products. Now there are 19. Says First National Spokesman Terry...