Women Winning
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter —Copyright J NEW YORK, Oct 19.
Shops in three American cities have cut their food prices because they are faced by housewives using “guerilla” tactics to back President Johnson’s war on inflation.
Yesterday the housewives recorded their latest victory: two chainstores in Denver, Colorado, slashed prices by 10 per cent—24 hours after they had been picketed by chanting women.
After initial resistance supermarkets in Phoenix, Colorado, and Portland, Oregon, also cut prices after being served notice by women to expect boycotts if they did not do so.
In what could become the pattern for a nationwide campaign housewives in these mid-West cities are now preparing a new campaign—for the abolition of trading stamps and marketing gimmicks.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31195, 20 October 1966, Page 2
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