The supermarket is more than a store.
It is the elegant agora of the new suburbia, the font of everything from Kix to Cheer, and the source of no small amount of corn including the gag about the housewife whose shopping cart does $40 an hour. The American housewife thinks nothing of spending an average $1,200 a year in the super market. Altogether, U.S. food stores do a $60 billion-a-year business, as much as the steel and auto industries wrapped together.
Supermarket business is still expanding, but it is not as super as...
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