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<text id=90TT3019>
<title>
Nov. 12, 1990: Business Notes:Hit Products
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Nov. 12, 1990 Ready For War
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 64
Business Notes
HIT PRODUCTS
It's Here: The Great Pumpkin
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<body>
<p> What are round and orange, wear toothy grins and sit in the
middle of front lawns across the U.S.? No, not pumpkins. They're
Stuff-A-Pumpkins, giant plastic leaf bags with a jack-o'-lantern
design. When filled to the brim with lawn rakings, the 260-gal.
monsters seem large enough to devour a small child. A creation
of Connecticut-based Sun Hill Industries, the Stuff-A-Pumpkin
(retail price: $3.98) is flying off the shelves of K mart,
Wal-Mart and other bargain behemoths, suddenly making the
childhood chore of leaf raking such a cool job that even Bart
Simpson might volunteer.
</p>
<p> The Stuff-A-Pumpkin's popularity has prompted an outbreak
of plastic-bag thefts, leaves and all. A Houston family ended
a string of such heists by coating the bags with grip-defying
petroleum jelly. Benson Zinbarg, Sun Hill's president and
founder, safeguards his own Stuff-A-Pumpkin by weighing it down
with bricks.
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</article>
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