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...during the last days of the Indochina war. All together, 37 Vietnamese sponsored by TIME have come to the U.S. Now living in Connecticut, New Jersey and California, they are learning to cope with such all-American problems as commuting, job hunting and matching budgets with sales at the supermarket. Budgets are second nature to Mme. Nga Thi Tran, who had handled finances for our Saigon bureau since 1968. Employed in our New York accounting office, she is hopefully looking at houses for her family of six in the Connecticut suburbs...
...locations more than 50 miles away from a bank's main or branch office. In addition, small bankers, worried that big banks and S and Ls will win away depositors, are backing two bills in Congress that would severely restrict deposits and withdrawals in the supermarket...
...said everything was closed, even though somebody just got a drink from him. So I went back upstairs and took a sixpack of Pepsi from behind the counter. I hid it in the bushes, went past about five honky marriage chapels and brought some food at a 24-hour supermarket...
Image and Sales. Even before Scott's arrival from an Idaho-based supermarket chain that he headed, A. & P. had been working slowly toward improving its image and sales. In each of the last five years it has closed between 200 and 400 stores, mostly small, marginal operations. Last year it opened 113 large stores, many of them in suburbia, and it now has 160 more in the planning stages. Scott is already talking of building a string of "superstores" that will contain drug departments and general merchandise sections along with the usual meat and potatoes. Says...
...Seashore in 1961 insured the tourist trade during the summer by protecting the beaches and ponds of the Cape, but after Thanksgiving, few visitors are attracted; the motels, shops and restaurants close, and unemployment soars. In the winter, food stamps become a common sight in Wellfleet's First National supermarket and the number of welfare recipients and those on unemployment climbs...