Shopper News from Paramus, New Jersey • 30

I I SO Fair I. awn Klmwond Park Saddle 11 rook Shopper, Wednesday, Marrh 2H, I'JHO Basics Food Warehouse is a new concept in food stores is lighted throughout the night. All itemsare marked with the Basics price, the supermarket price and savings on that particular item. The supermarket price is a com posite of the three W(l(jl competitors in the arn McCarthy stated. Basies currently employ 180 Hople, one-third the number on the payroll jls predecessor, Grand Union Jf I'T I I V.

I ft VrrjTI vJS'fb "i -jrZXi -J VS A' no hand-stacking. One-way aisles, approximately 7 feet wide stretch across the store so the traffic dont interfere with lines at cheek out counters. Fourteen of these counters are oHrated on tri belt systems to enable one customer to finish bagging items while another is checking out. The st ore does not provide bags (they can be bought for 2 cents each) or the Hr-sonncl to pack them. Boxes are available.

About 80 Hrcent of the items are scanned for faster checkout. The register tac the items. The new store is oHn 24 hours a day, seven days a week. An ample parking lot or vegetable is not a good buy, the siore wont stock it. McCarthy promises quality and value, but not selection.

Tlu deli department will hold a variety of 40-50 items, with a minimum sale of one-half ixtuiul of meat. Libor costs are eut with use of a highly modern slicing machine. USD A choice meat is available in larger packages, mostly. Veal will not Ih available, states McCarthy, leeause it requires too much time to process and slice. However, every other meat will Ih.

marked lower than suHr-market prices, he says. In the large grocery area, ease lots are displayed ith 0 1C) wo fr0ii3rrrfBrni arcs WQEIT' WB (etenfrdR 31100 'S inn? (T) ti 2Zrl' Vf' 4KM1 Kathy Wescott of IlidgewtMKi checks some of the price sax ingsaailalle on food and household items at the new Basies Fqjul Warehouse in Wood Ridge, with Jack llouseworth store general manager. STYLISH T-TOPS TERRY SETS WOOD IMIHiK A new concept in food stores which oivixd March 16 is geared to save the consumer an average of 30 Hrcent, according to Joseph McCarthy, regional vice preside Grand i Company losed its store at 12 Passaic St. just 12 weeks ago to ojen Basics Food Warehouse at the same location. A simple store occupying 20.000 square feet.

Basics has a limited assortment of merchandise. While the average sujHrmarket of that size stocks between 10.000 and 12.000 different items. Basics handles only 2200. McCarthy declares that 95 percent are national Brands with some generic items ranging from chocolate syrup to tea bags. It's not a suHrmarket, stated tlu vice president, who recommends that shopHTs visit Basies on a weekly basis and fill in at the supermarket in between.

Different from a box store" which handles only dry groceries. Basics carries perishables, also. Produce items number 130 and are "dramatically cheaper! than all competition. according to store executives. A full time buyer at the wholesale market enables Basics to take advantage of last-minute reductions, he explains.

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