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Which wouldn't matter if not for the tendency of Loewen and SCI to raise prices after taking control. The consolidators increase revenue through a combination of price hikes and a deft reconfiguring, or "remerchandising," of casket showrooms to ensure that customers buy caskets with far better profit margins. At the same time, they cut their costs by buying caskets and other materiel de mort at volume discounts and by linking funeral homes in clusters that share hearses, embalming rooms and other services. You may deposit your late Uncle Harry in that luxurious if slightly creepy Colonial house...
...company immediately begins a process that Ray Loewen calls "normalization," or bringing newly acquired homes up to financial expectations. All the comfy perks of a family business--extra cars and dry cleaning--suddenly disappear. And prices rise. Loewen also institutes its "Third Unit Target Merchandising" system in the casket showroom, which capitalizes on the propensity of survivors to avoid the cheapest two caskets and choose the next one up in price. "It's no different from any other business operating a showroom," says Lawrence Miller, president of Loewen's cemetery division. But often, two former officials agree, this means banishing...
...tremendous expansion as an industrial power. Similarly, in 1946, the city celebrated its role as an "industrial powerhouse" that played its part in America's triumph in the war. At that time, major industrial firms like Boston Woven Hose, Simplex Wire & Cable, Irving & Casson Furniture and the National Casket Co. employed thousands of industrial workers and sponsored most of the 1946 parade's floats...
...tremendous expansion as an industrial power. Similarly, in 1946, the city celebrated its role as an "industrial powerhouse" that played its part in America's triumph in the war. At that time, major industrial firms like Boston Woven Hose, Simplex Wire & Cable, Irving & Casson Furniture and the National Casket Co. employed thousands of industrial workers and sponsored most of the 1946 parade's floats...
...mall is built on the site of the original Lechmere department store, a branch of which is still found at CambridgeSide. There was also a liquor store and a casket company. The three buildings, Sigel says, formed the heart of pre-renewal East Cambridge...