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...fact, his behavior seems oddly reminiscent of the ousted Iranian monarch-his largesse with the nation's new-found oil wealth, for example, and in his touches of self-esteem that some critics say verge on megalomania. Saddam's portrait hangs everywhere in Iraq, from coffeehouses to supermarket check-out counters. Poets eulogize him in the press ("Since there was an Iraq, you were its awaited, its promised one"). Every evening Iraqis are treated to a film of their President strolling through factories, bouncing babies on his knees, chatting with peasants-all to the soft strains of Tchaikovsky...
...good to last, and it did not. In July the tab at the supermarket checkout counter rose 1.6%, and wholesale food prices in August shot up 4.4%, the highest monthly jump in seven years. Moreover, prices are expected to keep right on going up for at least the next six months. Says Rodney Kite, director of agricultural forecasting at Evans Economics in Washington: "Food will be in the forefront of inflation the rest of this year. By December a pound of hamburger or chicken will cost 15% more than it did in June. Pork chops will be 20% higher." Otto...
Other consumers are turning to no-frills food warehouses, where BYOB means Bring Your Own Bags. Safeway's Canoga Park store in Los Angeles until June 1980 was a struggling supermarket, but now it has become a popular food barn. There are no sweepstakes or eye-catching displays to attract customers. The store, moreover, charges 25? if people pay for groceries with a check, and grocery bags cost 3? each. Large yellow arrows on the aisle floors direct customers to Maxwell House coffee at $2.99 per lb., ground beef...
...uncover theft by employees, have become big business: hundreds of thousands are given each year, and the number is rising steadily. But despite technical improvements in the equipment, the accuracy of the results is often open to question, and there are persistent reports of browbeating by examiners. One supermarket clerk in Los Angeles was fired after an emotional response to the question, "Have you ever checked out groceries at a discount to your mother?" It later turned out that her mother had been dead for five years...
...hate going into restaurants alone." Jean-Luc's rolls-horreur!-are dipped in chocolate or flavored with coffee or stuffed with bananas, Roquefort cheese, mushrooms and a dozen or so other fillings. They are delivered frozen to the stores, and thus come from the oven as mushy as supermarket bread. Even so, the Croissanteries sell 50,000 rolls a day, plus Seines of soft drinks and coffee...