European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 27, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes Money matters monday december 27,1993 today a rates following arc fixed rates at which Community banking and credit Union facilities will sell for eign currencies to . Personnel for personal use German Mark. 1.66 British Pound .1.53 dutch Guilder .1.85 greek drachma. 238.3262 note tote rates above apply within the Host country. Figures Are expressed in dollars to the British Pound other currencies to the Dollar following Are Interbank rates that fluctuate and should be regarded As the approximate value of the . Dollar to foreign currencies italian lira turkish lira. 14,119.50 Spanish peseta. 139.50 portuguese escudo 173.35 Aust Len Schilling 11.9335 saudi Royal 3.7515 bahraini Dinar 0.3767 Kuwait Dinar 0.298 norwegian Krone 7.3675 danish Krone 6.635 British Pound. 1.5009 German Mark .1.6943 Swiss franc 1.4345 French franc 5.7695 dutch Guilder 1.8996 belgian franc. 35.35 Canadian Dollar.1.3268 nolo figured Are expressed in dollars to the British Pound other currencies to the Dollar Gold quote s3m,35 an ounce Stiver quote $5.03 an ounce last minute shoppers give retailers a happier Holiday Boeing China sign joint production Deal Beijing apr China and Boeing co. Have signed a preliminary agreement to manufacture fuselage sections jointly for Boeing 737 jetliners beginning in 1996. The Deal would be China s biggest manufacturing project so far with Boeing the official Xinhua news Agency said late thursday the chinese partner would be the Xian aircraft co., which already builds vertical fins and horizontal stabilizers for the 737, according to newsman Public relations Ltd. Of Hong Kong which represents Boeing. By Joyce m. Rosenberg a business writer if you sell big screen tvs stereos Kitchen appliances or Home furnishings you were in the right business this Christmas shopping season. Clothes efe another Story. With a few big exceptions clothing stores had a rough time bringing in sales Only by slashing prices. Jeffrey Feiner a Salomon Brothers inc. Analyst said it appeared Overall that retail sales in december would be up a decent 5.5 percent Over last years very Strong Christmas season. Shoppers were willing to spend but by most accounts they weren to exactly throwing Money around. A a we re being very cautious a said 33-year-old Debbie Rodriguez of Bakersfield Calif. A a in a just looking for sates in the stores. Last year it was about the same thing financially stores specializing in Home furnishings appliances and electronics generally did Well analysts and retailers said. For example Williams Sonoma whose business is housewares from Copper pans to espresso machines had a an excellent Christmas a spokesman Pat Connolly said. On the Down Side clothing sales at Many department and specially stores suffered As they have for much of the year. Salomon Brothers said several chains including the limited inc., had Holiday sales below expectations. Among the exceptions were Sears Roebuck and and . Penney co., which had Good clothing sales. The Catalon businesses . Bean and Eddie Bauer which feature outdoor Wear also had a Strong season. A a we re seeing intelligent said John costello senior executive vice president at scars. A what Consumers Are a the first family gets in some late Christmas shopping looking Over items at the fire and ice store in a Washington , mall on Friday. Interested in is purchasing what they need is. What they want or they try to get Hollywood businesswoman Beverly Freeman could attest to that. A i get terribly practical a she said. A a clothes for the kids. Garden tools for the procrastinating shoppers kept some stores guessing until the very end. A i feel a lot better than i did before last week a said Kenneth Macke chairman of Dayton Hudson corp. Among the last minute shoppers on Christmas eve was John Romard of Brookline mass., who said he needed the deadline pressure. A this is the Only Day that i Christmas shop. Its easier a he said. Quot you be got to make up your a i see a lot of panic out Here. You go into the stores and its pushing and shoving a another procrastinator Robert White said at an everything a a Dollar store in Atlanta. �?o1 got 30 cards real cheap. That a 30 people i knocked Down in one store. Now that a shopping.�?�. Ryan Meren a stuffed animal Salesman at Arthur Watson a zoo in Baltimore agreed that the last minute shoppers did no to have to be pushed. A you can pretty much trick them into buying anything Quot Meren s predicament was open and closed Case by Maria e. Odum the Washington Post Janet Gordon casually shopped the aisles of the Safeway in the River Towne commons shopping Center in Oxon Hill md., on Christmas morning picking up cake and ice Cream. She knew the grocery store was open when she saw that the door was unlocked the tights were on and people were coming and going. About 15 customers were inside when Gordon her two sons and two granddaughters joined them. But while Gordon a 48-year-old White House Telephone operator was standing at the checkout she noticed something was strange the Cashiers were nowhere to be found. A we were standing there waiting a said the Capitol Heights md., woman. A fall of us at the checkout counter were discussing the fact that there did t seem to be anybody working at the Carole Satterfield of Oxon Hill walked into the Safeway behind two other people to pick up a few baking items. A there were people standing in Tine saying that somebody is going to get fired because there Are no Cashiers Here today Quot said Satterfield a 36-year-old former government worker. After no one answered Gordon Scalls for attention in the Back of the store she called the police. According to Prince George s police sol. Alan Day the Safeway officially closed at 1 30 . Christmas morning but a worker inadvertently left the door unlocked. About 10 15 ., customers had arrived. A people not knowing the store was closed came in and just started with their shopping a Day said. A when we got there we made an announcement that the store was not open and that it was closed. Then we instructed people to put Down the items and leave the store and they did so. We went outside and called a manager and he came and locked us the a spokesman for Safeway could not be reached for Caesars Boss to become pizza Pitchman Detroit apr Little Caesars pizza is launching the latest in a series of corneal commercials a this one features owner Mike hitch and a truckload of squawking chickens. The television spots kick off the no. 3 pizza makers new Campaign to offer a third a ebon us pizza for $1, adding to the Long standing two for one a pizza pizza Quot promotion. That Means three medium pizzas with one Topping each for less than $10. I itch thus joins the ranks of Chrysler a one time Leader Lee Iacocca and the Wendy a Burger Chain Boss Dave Thomas As to and Pitchman Tor his own product. He Hopes to further Cut into the competitions promo offers including dominoes a something for nothing a Campaign. A it hey Veall gone to value. We be been on it for the last decade. We just wanted to reinforce our position As a value Leader Quot hitch said. The commercial created by Cliff Freeman amp partners of new York Beans airing across the United states this hitch in a suit and lie tooling Down a Malibu country Road in a red convertible when along comes an old Jalopy stacked High with Chicken crates passing erratically on the left. A How docs the owner of Little Caesars think up his next great pizza idea Quot asks the narrator in a deep a amazing but True voice. A what influences his inspiration a As hundreds of feathers Fly and one hapless Chicken smashes into hitches Windshield screeching a Buck Buck Buck a the idea hits him so to speak. A a that a it pizza for a Buck a the 63-year-old owner says. The $1 promotion comes after Hometown rival Dom Ino s pizza inc., hit by a $79 million jury award to a woman injured by a dominoes pizza Driver announced it would no longer guarantee a 30-minute delivery. Little Caesars ranked third in size behind pizza hut and Tommos is known for Wacky commercials with a l melt a include a dog wedding and a patient on a in room a Stretc no p Zzz cheese into the operate hitch who also owns the Detroit red wines hockey team and Detroit tigers baseball team founded his pizza Empire with his wife Marian in 1959. The ners Insl a i nth a0vert sing underscores ducts of he an a -1 in vim pm he has in All As pacts Fht business said Rob Elliott a Little cae Sarso Lucial. St nlulercae1arschasi 4,600 restaurants in the United puck a cd a a
