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Push-button prices

Date8/23/1989

Names

Gardner, Scott (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

FormatPicture

Notes

Original Toronto Star caption: Push-button prices: Telepanel vice-president Garth Aasen displays the firm's hi-tech grocery labels. Loblaws is adopting the system across Ontario.

Subject

Stores, Retail

Medium

Photographs

Language

English

ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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Object NumberTSPA_0015175F

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