Bread dispute

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33121, 11 January 1973, Page 8

Bread dispute

Sir, —The manager of the Super Value Supermarket attempts to excuse his illegal action, in selling bread on Friday, December 22, only to those customers who bought at least $1 worth of groceries. by saying that this was necessary because “whole families, father, mother, and several children, wanted two loaves each.” Presumably if each had spent a dollar at the check-out they would have qualified. This'poor man had only a “few hundred loaves.” yet somehow managed to serve “thousands of customers” —99 per cent of whom spent $5 or more, thus qualifying, presumably, for bread as “regular” customers, none of whom, he says, missed out on bread. Could it be that there were considerably more than a "fewhundred” loaves in stock or was this a repeat of the miracle of the five loaves and little fishes? Perhaps New Brighton will become another Lourdes! I suppose if this; shopkeeper gets away with it other shops will follow- suit during the next shortage nowthat a precedent has been set. —Yours, etc., UNBELIEVER.

July 9, 1973. New bus routes and j