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...petty anarchy. Ironies and animosities collide everywhere: on a quiet street, a cat defiantly arches its back at a small dog leashed by its owner, even as the local lads shout, "Go back to Poland!" at the uncomprehending laborers. At an intersection, fenders graze and tempers flare. In a supermarket, a woman in a fur coat filches consumer goods the Poles could neither find nor afford back home. (Her thievery gives Nowak the inspiration for his own shopping scam.) A derelict steals Nowak's food and saves him from being apprehended with it. London, the dowager queen putting...
...owned since 1957, a sign more beseeching than stern reads: PLEASE DON'T ASK FOR CREDIT. Next door, Gary Fricke says his furniture store lost money last year, and business this year is off another 50%. Mike Riemenschneider, who bought the town's Jack and Jill Supermarket in 1979, has watched sales droop 15%. Says Vernon Waterman of the farm-implement business he runs with his wife Margaret: "I'm surviving on service, but losing money every day. I'm barely in business, and it won't get any better until corn and soybean prices...
...most important crisis in the past few decades," declared Mexican President José López Portillo on a visit to Tijuana. If anything, that was an understatement. Last month's devaluation of the peso created an absolute mess for businesses in both countries. On the Mexican side, supermarket shelves were stripped clean of basic necessities by Americans who found their dollars worth three times as many pesos as they were a year ago. On the American side, merchants whose lifeblood is Mexican patronage were left standing beside silent cash registers...
...last week. Sears, Roebuck and Co., the largest U.S. retailer, launched a new offensive in its campaign to become a major force in the financial services business. In eight stores, from Atlanta to Los Angeles, the company opened the first branches of its Sears Financial Network, a kind of supermarket where shoppers can buy stocks, bonds, insurance and houses, or even open up Individual Retirement Accounts...
...shake the memory of what he has seen. Most of all, he listens to the eight other men on the force and comes to respect them. They have drifted into thankless jobs. One tells him: "Right now I work on the police force, my wife stamps cans in the supermarket, and she makes more money than I do." Says another...