The White Falcon - 08.04.1977, Blaðsíða 2

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Consumer bulletin
Navy Exchange
by Nadia Slusar
Sprlnqtime specials
Spring fever has really hit the
exchange. It will offer some tre-
mendous specials in the upcoming
weeks in the Beverage Store and
Mini-Mart. Why not stop in, inquire
and then take advantage of one of
the specials?
Easter greetings
The Navy Exchange management and
employees wish you a Happy Easter.
Donuts, donuts
The doughnut machine has recu-
perated satisfactorily after its
recent surgery. Hot delicious
doughnuts are again available at
T-100 in the morning and at the
Mini-Mart after 1 p.m.
Service Station hours
The Service Station sales area
and gas pumps are open Monday
through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5:30
p.m.; Saturday 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
and Sunday the gas pumps only are
open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Personalized Service
Spring has sprung and love is in
the air.... The Personalized Ser-
vice Shop has T-shirts and sweat-
shirts which are sold at a discount
when you have your favorite slogan
lettered on them.
The shop has portrait service—
to keep you fresh in your love’s
mind—and, if all follows suit,
wedding invitations and announce-
ments plus calling cards keep
everyone in the know.
Also featured are a furniture
repair service and a photocopying
machine at the USO for your con-
venience. Drop in and ask Jerry
Martin about all those extra ser-
vices .
NRSO military personnel director
visits
E. T. Pickett, Navy Resale System
Office military personnel division
director, spent last week in Kefla-
vik.
Mr. Pickett discussed Navy Ex-
change military manning, authoriza-
tions and provided counseling on
military assignments and detailing.
Having a party?
With spring weather, you are
probably planning some outdoor
barbecues. Why not let the exchange
help you make your fun in the sun
more successful?
The Navy Exchange still offers
those mouth-watering Party Pert
Platters.
Yes, NEX does the work, you get
the credit and everyone enjoys the
party.
Try one of the four different
platters. Call 2149 for more more
information or stop by the Viking
and pick up a brochure.
Retail departments expand
Navy Exchanges around the world
are expanding their retail depart-
ments from 20 to 28, a process that
will end by August.
Each exchange has been requested
to develop a phase-in schedule,
based on the availability of new
cash registers, personnel training,
record adjustment and local condi-
tions.
Navy Exchange Keflavik has com-
pleted the phase-in and the newly
expanded departments were imple-
mented March 29.
The increased number of retail
departments will enable Navy Ex-
changes to obtain more precise
sales information to improve in-
ventory management and merchandise
mix.
As part of the phase-in, some
merchandise categories will be
transferred from existing depart-
ments to the new department desig-
nations.
The Navy Resale System Office an-
ticipates that sales figures for the
new retail departments will not be
fully developed until the end of
fiscal year 1978, ending in January
1979. Partial data will be obtained
during the current fiscal year (1977)
as exchanges Dhase in the new depart-
ments .
Newly expanded Navy Exchange re-
tail departments are:
A-4 food products (joining A-l
candy, confections and A-2 tobacco
and smoking accessories).
B-4 electrical appliances and B-5
consumer electronics and musical in-
struments (joining B-l cameras, B-2
home furnishings, housewares, B-3
sporting goods and B-7 overseas mail
order sales).
C-3 books, periodicals and greeting
cards (joining C-l luggage and lea-
ther goods, C-2 stationery, C-4
hardware, garden and pet supplies and
C-5 toys and wheel goods).
D-5 fragrances and cosmetics (join-
ing D-l toiletries and drugs, D-2
jewelry, D-3 household supplies and
D-4 fine jewelry, overseas only).
E-8 women's ready to wear (joining
E-l commercial uniforms and accesso-
ries, B-3 intimate apparel and ac-
cessories, E-4 domestics, E-5 in-
fant's and children's wear and E-7
family shoes).
F-2 fabrics and sewing accessories.
L-l retail clothing stores, uni-
forms from Naval Supply System.
Food and drink spending
An average active duty sailor
spends $214 per year in the exchange
cafeteria and snack bar—more than
any other service—according to a
recent Club and Food Service maga-
zine market study.
Coast Guard personnel spend only
$20 per capita yearly, but Coast
Guard Exchanges do not have the same
abundance of cafeterias and snack
bars.
In club per capita spending, the
picture is vastly different: Air
Force personnel spend $454 per
year while the Coast Guard rates
second place at $364.
All services average $151 for
exchange cafeterias and snack bars,
with $307 for clubs and package
stores.
Annual per capita sales (active
duty) Exchange cafe, Clubs and
snack bar pkg. stores
Army $140 $266
Air Force 140 454
Navy 214 225
Marines 79 247
Coast Guard 20 364
Average 151 307
The top brewers
The top five United States beer
breweries (Anheuser-Busch, Schilitz,
Miller, Pabst and Coors) accounted
for nearly 70 per cent of total U. S.
beer sales last year.
The five sold more than 102 mil-
lion barrels—out of a total 150
million barrels.
Before pasteurization and depend-
able refrigeration, beer had to be
made in hundreds of small breweries,
but skyrocketing labor costs, pas-
teurization and big distribution
networks have driven many of the
small breweries out of business—
down to a diminishing hundred today.
Commissary Store
Customers are encouraged to take
advantage of the "After Inventory
Five to 25 Cent Sale." Unbelievable
bargains are offered on selected
items.
The Consumer Bulletin is compiled by Exchange employees and Commissary em-
ployees. The opinions and comments expressed herein do not necessarily re-
flect the opinions and policies of the Department of Defense or the White
Falcon Editorial Staff. Mention of specific consumer products in this column
is intended solely for the benefit of authorized patrons, and in no way im-
plies Department of Defense endorsement for these products. Correspondence
or comments relating to this column should be addressed to the Navy Exchange
Officer or the Commissary Store Officer.
•.. and that makes cents!
Food conservation remains a prime
concern at Navy Enlisted Dining Facili-
ties, according to the Navy Food Ser-
vice Bulletin.
In the March 25 White Falcon a
story was published about the Keflavik
food service operation. The following
dialogue is a related sidelight to that
feature:
Sailor: "Don't get me wrong, chief.
I really enjoy hot dogs and hamburgers,
and I even like that liver and onions.
And the El Rancho stew you guys make is
real good, too. But what happened to
the lobster, shrimp and steak? And the
portions seem to be getting smaller.
How come, chief?"
Chief: "Well, you see we are only
allowed to spend $2.71 ($2.82 overseas)
per person per day. Now that isn't
much, considering all the food choices
you have. Take grill steak, for in-
stance. Did you know that every pound
costs $3.23? That's $1.47 per portion,
and that's only one piece of meat out of
three full meals! Pretty impressive,
right? Well, now, let's take lobster.."
Sound familiar? The sailor asked
some good questions. And the chief has
some good, concrete answers, but there's
more to the story:
Every piece of bread thrown away
costs one cent. Every half glass of
milk thrown away costs four cents. Ev-
ery piece of galley-baked cake thrown
away costs about four cents. Every two
ounces of canned vegetables thrown away
costs about two and a half cents.
Let's say that one sailor threw that
much away every day for a year. The
cost would be $41.98. However, if one
sailor at each of the Navy's 688 enlis-
ted dining facilities did the same, the
cost would be $28,882. That money would
feed 10,635 people for one day.
Now, how about the chief's side of
the story?
Each half gallon of milk thrown away
costs 68 cents. The ends of only five
loaves of bread thrown away costs 10
cents. One gallon of coffee thrown away
costs 83 cents.
If only this much is discarded per
day for a year, the cost would be $588.
If the same happens at each enlisted
dining facility, the cost would be
$404,544. But some facilities use all
their bread ends: some have newer.cof-
fee pots that eliminate most waste, and
some have excellent control of break-
outs. If only one-third of the facili-
ties lose this much, the cost would
still be $134,848, enough to give a four
ounce portion of lobster to 91,933 sail-
ors.
It looks like education and coopera-
tion are the key words for effective
food conservation for both the sailor
and the chief.
(From "A Little Bit of Non-cents"—
The Norfolk Food Management Team).
TOURS
&
by Fran Praaton
Symphony Concert
The next Symphony Concert will be
held on April 21. The conductor will
be Samuel Jones, and the guest artist
John Lill. The evening's program will
consist of Mozart's Introduction to
the Opera "The Wedding of Figaro,"
Beethoven's Piano Concert No. 3, Samuel
Jones' "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"
and Borodin's Symphony No. 2. Tickets
will be available at the Tour Office
from Monday until noon Friday.
Dublin
Don't forget about our charter flight
to Dublin. It departs on May 7, and
returns the following Sat. May 14. The
special price includes round-trip air-
fare, hotel accommodations for seven
nights in a centrally located hotel,
private baths in each room, transporta-
tion to and from the Dublin airport, and
continental breakfast each morning.
There are still some places available on
the plane, but be sure to sign up soon.
Gathering of the Clans
This is the year for the Interna-
tional Gathering of the Clans in Scot-
land. The clan gathering is a very
special occasion dear to the hearts of
all of those with even the remotest bit
of Scottish ancestry. Almost every year
a few of the many hundreds of Scottish
Clans will have a gathering on their
home ground in Scotland or even
sometimes in England, but an Inter-
national Gathering is held very rarely.
The last one, in fact, was held 25
years ago.
This year's festivities begin with
opening week ceremonies in Edinburgh
starting April 30. The following week
all the major clans will then gather in
their home territories and continue the
celebration until May 13. At both the
combined festivities in Edinburgh and
the individual clan festivities
throughout Scotland, there will be High-
land games, piping, Highland dancing,
exhibitions and reunions. In addition,
many of the individual clans will hold
special activities that have particular
meaning to their clan.
Even after the first two weeks of
ceremonies and festivities, individual
celebrations will take place in various
parts of Scotland throughout the summer.
As a climax in several districts, spe-
cial Highland games, involving all the
area clans, will be held in late August
or early September. Plan now to visit
Scotland, and attend this rare event,
the International Gathering of the
Clans.
Beni dorm
Three additional tours may be added
to the April tour calendar that was
published last week. They are all to
Benidorm, Spain and all depart on April
15.
Benidorm is located on the Medi-
terranean, and forms part of the Spanish
Riviera. A trip there in April would
give you a chance to lie on the beach
and soak up the sun...and prepare
yourself for the inconsistencies of a
Keflavik summer.
If you want to go on April 15 to
Benidorm, you can choose to go for 22
days, 29 days or 36 days.
For more information, contact the
Tour Office at 4420 or 4200.
White
Falcon
Commanding Officer
Capt. Jack T. Weir
Public Affairs Officer
JOC James E. Dewater
Editor
J02 Jerry Foster
Staff
DM2 Mel Baum
YNSN Chris Bates
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