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The price is right
The price is right

The price is right

Date9/14/1989
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Original Toronto Star caption: The price is right: Paula Oreskovich checks a camel-colored pure wool suit by a Canadian designer; $225 at Tom's Place in Kensington Market. Regular retail price would be more than $700.
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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_0015317F
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
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]
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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
Ossington Buy-Right Store
Ossington Buy-Right Store
Approximately 1935
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
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
Push-button prices
Push-button prices
8/23/1989
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
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