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Cowen, Helen

Description: Interview with Helen Cowen on the treatment of older people by business owners, mainly that they charged older people more.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 1968

Department of Consumer Affairs

Description: Consumer Affairs Secretary Mary Ann Walsh laments proposal that her department will be folded into Administration & Finance in state spending cuts. Reps.Flaherty,Marsh.Consumer complaint phone calls.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/03/1989

Economic recovery as election issue

Description: Economists Sara Johnson and Barry Bluestone say state is headed for recession because of declines in high tech, defense contracts, health care, education. Copley Place without shoppers. People in line at unemployment office.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/18/1990

Fighting consumer fraud

Description: Press conference held by Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti and Paula Gold, chief of consumer protection division, on criminal prosecution of fraud to combat white collar economic crime. She talks about technology to facilitate communication between law enforcement agencies. A man talks about fraud in the nursing home industry. High rises in Boston financial district. Several takes of reporter standup. He curses when he messes up.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/22/1976

Food stamps

Description: Food stamps sign in windows of Stop & Shop and Finast supermarkets. One, five and ten dollar USDA coupons marked "Do not fold or spindle." Cashier's hand presses keys on register, opens drawer, inserts bills, makes change. Groceries move along belt at checkout. Groceries loaded into paper bag. Customer pushes full store carriage with toddler wearing Mickey Mouse cap in child seat. Magazine rack. Aisle of bottled and canned juices. Milk being stocked in dairy section. Cartons of jumbo eggs. Price sticker being applied to mugs. Register tape.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/23/1977

GROCERY STORE

Description: BUTCHERING MEAT AT SAVENOR'S, PEOPLE GROCERY SHOPPING
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/24/1986

Grove Hall environs

Description: Grove Hall Dorchester environs. Blue Hill Avenue storefronts. Regal Foods, liquor store, photography studio, Grove Hall Savings Bank. Interview with Emanuel Horne, director of business development office of the Boston Plan, focusing on commercial revitalization of Dudley Station and Grove Hall. Talks about long-term aftermath of 1967 riots: area continues to suffer from lack of investment and entrepreneurial expertise. Cites need for bakeries and supermarket. He is hopeful for housing renewal to accommodate immigrants. Looks for ethnic diversification in consumer habits.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/27/1980

Harvard Coop record department

Description: Harvard Coop record department. Close-up on classical records and posters of conductors. Shelves of LP album spines. Shoppers browse bins. Customers pay, cashier opens register drawer, makes change, bags records. 8-track tapes stacked on shelves. Audio cassettes displayed.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/02/1978

Hidden line items in the budget

Description: Proposed budget has small items with big impact: increased charges for MBTA communities & Quabbin drinking water communities & abolition of consumer complaint mediation. Theodore Mann, Marc Draisen.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/22/1991

JORDAN MARSH, SANTA CLAUS

Description: CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS, TOYS, VIDEO EQUIPMENT, SANTA, CLOTHES, SHOPPERS
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/26/1982