Eighty-eight

Her grandmother lived to be eighty-eight years old.

Sixteen plus sixty-one is seventy-seven. Seventeen plus seventy-one is eighty-eight.

Experts say no company has put barcode technology to better use than Wal-Mart, based in Bentonville, Arkansas. By nineteen eighty-eight, all Wal-Mart stores used laser bar code scanners. Highly detailed records on its products, and how they were selling, helped Wal-Mart keep costs down. Today, Wal-Mart is the world’s biggest corporation.