Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. of America was the particular butt of his displeasure, because, with its 15,536 stores in the U. S. and Canada, it is the largest chain organization in the world. Last week it published the profits of its fiscal (business) year, which ended Feb. 29. Those profits were...
...undertake to express our opinion that the organization as now conducted, possesses the potentiality of a control of retail food distribution to such an extent as to threaten the best interests of the American public. Is Federal control of that organization in prospect? Will the conduct of chain stores generally be such within the next few years as to bring about such a degree of 'cooperation' and 'understanding' among the largest ones as to attract the eye and attention of the Department of Justice...
This roundabout suggestion of Federal investigation followed the positive demand made in Manhattan last week by the executive committee of the National Association of Retail Meat Dealers that the Federal Trade Commission study the business methods of all chain store organizations. The butchers accuse the chain stores of misleading advertisements, false bargain sales, short weights and price cutting...
Although there is nothing overt to indicate that these two almost simultaneous attacks against chain food stores were planned jointly or with premeditation, their coincidence means that food distributers are developing an aggressive defense against the expansion of chain store business. Such tactics may indeed stir food chains to merge. At present they number about 800 (with 60,000 stores competing with about 300,000 independent retail stores). Hitherto chain stores have been highly individualistic, each system spreading out like strawberry vines from a parent plant. Nor have they, except for the Kroger grocery stores and the J. C. Penney...
Records also were sales made by the great chain store systems during the first three months of 1928. The tally...