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'r The Eagle PdNOMMd Agriculture Page 80 ood Page9C Page 30 Consumer Neva Page 2C Supermarket scanners causing a controversy 00 ITEMS 358 5'12'78 13 05 i pr If and next four years Exchange I (Staff photos Jay Bill Meeks) Mary Kay request the 38 he said contrary to assertions would be justified by greater costs efficiencies Tanteff and other supermarket executives also said that the machines produce considerable savings by eliminating ring ups of incorrect prices at the cash register While shoppers often feel cashiers ring up a higher figure when in doubt about an real price store minutes It should be stored tightly covered and can be reheated before serving if desired A recipe for Glogg still being sought This is a heated wine punch served in Scandinavian countries and flavored with raisins and almonds Recipes and cooking questions should be sent to The Pantry Ex change in care of The Eagle PO leaders who trained last week will serve the approximately 270 girls who will attend the camp during June The day camp will be divided into 16 units based on grade level In addition to the ac tivities shown here the scouts will also learn fire cooking crafts weaving and nature study A key issue is whether the new technology will spell the end of item pricing the traditional practice of stamping the price on each product While most of the estimated 150 billion black line markings of the: Universal Product Code remain so much Op Art on supermarket products growing millions of others are being slid over checkout laser devices to tally prices without the TO SERUE YOU PAY OUOTOHN pup TENTS AND IRE BUILDING are both traditions at Girl Scout day camp where leaders trained last week for this sum sessions in the woods The leader training took place at Camp Howdy where leaders learned tent building skills from Wilma Walters at right in insert photo above and fire building from Kathy Kothmann at right below The 30 new OIJR PLEASURE OYSTER marking of each item over a slot exposing a laser beam through which a computer recognizes the liens and numbers as the iden tificatidn of for example a 12 ounce bottle of Heinz Ketchup The com vev invalid puter then links the product with the Kessel who has helped write some price the store has keyed in say 59 of the consumer cents The product name and the price then appear on a small screen for the shopper to check Simultaneously and this proponents say is the real genius of the system a high speed printing machine snaps out a written shop record of the transaction: the item and price and the tax is ap plicable The printed record also shows any Univac scanners an investment that coupon deduction or other credits subtracted from the bill think said Harriet Bernstein a customer as the price of her scanned items flashed on the screen at the Oyster Bay oodtown I get home at least I can Several other shoppers agreed But Matthew Burggraf owner of the Snack restaurant in Bayville NY who goes to the store for supplies officials insist that cashiers usually said 1 can get in and out as fast it takes Consumer activist Richard Kessel also was critical of aspects of the changeover He surveyed the store and shoppers after the scan ners were installed and reported complaintsof delays and confusion Kessel who heads a group called Long Island Consumer Action also contended that prices were slightly higher than those of surrounding markets based on the Nassau County Consumer Depart price on each item to compare to the Dixie chain of lorida recently ment marKet nasKeingures The claim was disputed by oodtown's president Irwin Tan tleff who got Kessel to acknowledge estimate in favor of the shopper What activists groups like the New York State Con sumer Protections Board and the Consumer ederal of America fear is that once scanning becomes widespread supermarkets will resume an active campaign to end item pricing This the activists contend is where the rear store savings witty scanners would come in to the dissatisfaction of con Wednesday May 24 1978 Pace 1C fashion regulations still said that in the absense of clearcut store economics and savings the costs of the scan ners do end up being passed on to consumers know any supermarkets so benevolent as to soak up costs of the installation and maintenance of computer he said Tantleff said he had spent up to $12000 a lane for eight lanes of Island Michigan could reach 500 machines over the Connecticut and next four years Bargain buys this week include poultry products several canned items and fresh vegetables one food specialist says' Also several dairy items are in the spotlight according to Mrs Gwendolyne Clyatt a consumer marketing specialist with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service the Texas University System Quality and price trends are the following: Poultry Good values are available on turkey parts and eggs are an ex cellent bargain ryer supplies are reported up for the first half of the OYSTER BOY 000TWN OPEN HOURS 7 GAYS' A WEEK Other highlights include tomato products peanut butter pasta products and cooking oil Also dry milk is a item in most stores Dairy Spotlight items include cottage cheese low fat milk sour cream and yogurt 4 resh vegetables Best buys are cabbage carrots cucumbers potatoes and dry onions Lettuce prices may drop Cut shortening into flour and salt Combine egg water and vinegar Pour liquid into flour mixture all at once Blend with a spoon just until year so consumers reasonably can flour is all moistened This is an easy expect particularly good values crust to handle and can be re rolled Both whole fryers and mixed parts without toughening It also keeps in are on special in some markets the refrigerator for up to a month Grocery market aisles By RALPH BLUMENTHAL4 New York Times Newsservice NEW YORK Supermarket price scanners checkout counter computers that are triggered by those strange parallel black lines on almost everything in the store are proliferating these days amid controversy over what the trend means for consumers that while he had checked ood California have enacted laws that prices himself he had used require stores to maintain item county marketbasket averages for pricing Other states are considering the other stores a procedure Tan such measured But the New York tleff maintained rendered the stir law expires nqxt January and consumer groups expect an organized industry effort to block its renewal Meanwhile supermarkets are generally abiding by an industry agreement maintaining item pricing even where not required bylaw Another area of concern this time from the industry's side was aired at the recent convention in Dallas Increasingly supermarket officials complained scanning systems were being disrupted in the sensitive printed patterns of light and dark lines on the manufac labels the officials said translated immediately into 'com puter problems Meanwhile therewere indications that after years of industry and consumer skepticism the halting nationwide movement toward supermarket scanning machines is picking up speed Giant oods in the Washington area the leading ex ponent of scanners already has 46 of its 115 stares equipped Brockton Public Markers of Masachusetts expects to have all 32 of its stores converted to scanners within three years and has been removing item prices where it can according to a recent industry report In such cases prices remain on shelves containing all the items sumers who would no longer have a One long term holdout the Winn i Never ail Pie Crust 3 cups flour IVi cup shortening 1 teaspoon salt 1 egg well beaten 5 tablespoons water 1 tablespoon vinegar 'CASH PAID TOT TAN PAID CASH CHANGE1 1 I TOTAL store receipt reversed its position and installed With this in mind six states the first of what its president said new xofk Aiwae Massachusetts: The Pantry Exchange has can also be baked in a warm (250 received several responses to Mrs degrees) oven for approximately 30 Carol request for pie dough that can be made ahead and refrigerated for use up to one month later Mrs Oren Beal Mrs Raymond Huebner Duewall Patsy Akin Joy Shughart and readers in both Caldwell and Normangee all sent in recipes for the crust Although there were some small differences as to a 4La a U1C alUUUML Vk AiUUly UiC dWVUUl VA AM WWAW water and the type (white or Box 3000 Bryan Texas 77801 of vinegar used here is the basic recipes from the cookbook Recipes of Home Economics Teachers 1963 edition? Page 7C Life Page 13C Youth Lines The Pantry necessity of ringing up each price manually nothing it know it knows your whole life joked Mildred Gustafson a cashier at oodtown in Oyster Bay NY which two months ago introduced scanners They opened to mixed reviews The oodtown move was followed by the Pathmark store in Port Jefferson NY Seven other stores have been operating scanners in metropolitan area New Jersey To date 26 of the 250 scanner equipped supermarkets in the nation are in i New York State according to the ood Marketing Institute the association of the grocery industry 'jj While the figure is considerably 'f below original expectations there 1 are 32700 supermarkets in the United States the phenomenon shows signs now of accelerating growth the institute contended is here to a spokesman said fl Yet aspects of the electronic 'fl transformation continue to arouse fl controversy principally the issue 4 i of a threatened elimination of price markings on individual items a Consumer groups have also 4 contended that the intitial costs of the new technology cannot help but De tacked on to already soaring food prices Unions have voiced ap prehension over possible loss of jobs And some shoppers at least in the beginning have complained that the unfamiliar equipment actually slowed hot speeded the unit on checkout lines irst introduced into regular (non experimental) service by Pathmark in its South Plainfield NJ store in September 1974 the electronic scanners work as follows: At the checkout counter a casher slides the Universal Product Code 2 cups Corn Chex cereal 2 cups Rice Chex cereal 2 cups Wheat Chex cereal 1 cup pretzel sticks 1 cup salted nuts note: Either peanuts or mixed nuts can be 6 tablespoons butter or margarine 1 teaspoon seasoned salt 2V4 teaspoons soy sauce gomewhat this week as more sup note: Worchestershire sauce may be plies come to market used instead of soy sauce) 4 resh ruit 1 teaspoon onion or garlic powder Grocery market aisles canned fruit items at economy a recipe for a snacx cauea i prices are easing the low supplies of and made out of a variety of fresh fruit which will increase as different cereals and nuts was also more spring summer items come to requested last week In response to market A' 6 Mary Kay request the Canned fruits at budget prices Pantry Exchange received recipes include 'applesauce fruit cocktail from Martha Ray Jones and Verna and cling peaches aIaam Uawa 10 Ufb 12 wxAiftA zxit i a i i Trash A checkout slip from a price seamier and the scanner code (Photo by New York Times News Service) IPviAafa VwiaM Good values include grapefruit anninoannlA Melt butter in electric skillet at 200 Beef degrees Stir in seasonings Blend Prices' ar still increasing but well Add cereals pretzels and nuts chuck cuts offer some economy due Mix until pieces are coated Cover to a surplus' skillet leaving lid vent open Heat at 250 degrees for 15 minutes stirring Pork occasionally Cool asborbent Prices are still high Best values paper appear on Boston butt roasts note: The cereal mixture shoulder steak and liver JRE1 CIRCLE 2 I A S' ri 1 1 ffCTMWWEI 'l "i if IiM iffl i 101 Unis I 'i i I 0 fc A it w' sa atahr 'jkflKw HHM i jf ffoHnrfTHMmnllM Vtx 7 ft: STRK SP :79 1 OS CRN JCE 1 11 5T PREMIUM 49 RAGIJ SAUCED "99 A i NEST "ALMONDS 7 79T BC CHSBCR MA NTE CLOUD TT 93T NTE OOUD TTC 93T DELETE UTE CLOUD TT 93T MALLONS 53T BC CHSBGR MA 79 XX CATORAOE i 53T A 4 V' TOT TAN DUE 28 ORDER TOTAL 8 75 $6 i a.