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Push-button prices

Push-button prices

Date8/23/1989
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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.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0015175F
Who won, who lost in food price war? The prices are climbing back up, the chains are counting up losses, and Miracle Food Mart, the aggressor, lost most, analysts say [Incomplete]
Who won, who lost in food price war? The prices are climbing back up, the chains are counting up losses, and Miracle Food Mart, the aggressor, lost most, analysts say [Incomplete]
2/24/1982
Pharmaceuticals Galore: A manufactureres' association official says Bill C-22 has kept prices down because producers know they'll have to contend eventually with a price monitoring board
Pharmaceuticals Galore: A manufactureres' association official says Bill C-22 has kept prices down because producers know they'll have to contend eventually with a price monitoring board
2/9/1982
Cross-border shopping, coupled with recession, put pressure on multinational manufacturers to bring Canadian prices of consumer electronics in line with those in the U.S.
Cross-border shopping, coupled with recession, put pressure on multinational manufacturers to bring Canadian prices of consumer electronics in line with those in the U.S.
12/17/1992
Consumers are finding the prices are just too good to ignore
Consumers are finding the prices are just too good to ignore
12/17/1992
Loblaws vice-president f. w. Morley talks prices with protestor, He remained unruffled, kept smiling and pouring coffee for the housewives
Loblaws vice-president f. w. Morley talks prices with protestor, He remained unruffled, kept smiling and pouring coffee for the housewives
10/21/1966
There's a store, In North York where salespeople sometimes knock down prices of goods and it still manages to stay in business. The Forget-Me-Not-Shop(...)
There's a store, In North York where salespeople sometimes knock down prices of goods and it still manages to stay in business. The Forget-Me-Not-Shop(...)
4/18/1975
The price is right. Ajax-Pickering Hospital Auxillary runs The 4477 Shop at 613 Kingston Rd., Uniot 2, in Pickering Village. Barb Burke shows a winter(...)
The price is right. Ajax-Pickering Hospital Auxillary runs The 4477 Shop at 613 Kingston Rd., Uniot 2, in Pickering Village. Barb Burke shows a winter(...)
2/26/1990
Price Club, acknowledged as leader among warehousers, offers a range of goods from tires to tollet paper, from computers to bread in a huge nofrills outlet in Vaughan
Price Club, acknowledged as leader among warehousers, offers a range of goods from tires to tollet paper, from computers to bread in a huge nofrills outlet in Vaughan
1/31/1992
Price Club warehouse Vaugham retailing
Price Club warehouse Vaugham retailing
1/31/1992
Merchants were told at a conference this week they need to sell personality -- plus place, price and product if they want a healthy slice of the retail pie that is not growing
Merchants were told at a conference this week they need to sell personality -- plus place, price and product if they want a healthy slice of the retail pie that is not growing
1/8/1981
Jeanie Hersenhoren scoops up cut-price Christmas wrap as she joins Boxing Day bargain hunters at the Eaton Centre today
Jeanie Hersenhoren scoops up cut-price Christmas wrap as she joins Boxing Day bargain hunters at the Eaton Centre today
12/27/1989
He's taking a beating in the price war between the giant supermarkets, says grocer Jan Forrest, partner in store on Yonge St. in North York. He holds (...)
He's taking a beating in the price war between the giant supermarkets, says grocer Jan Forrest, partner in store on Yonge St. in North York. He holds (...)
11/16/1970