Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Please refer to your issue of Sept. 9, p. 52 in the column on Education. Mr. Crabtree (Secretary of the National Education Association) complains that chain stores and mail order houses pick up profits in villages which are taxed at the headquarters in a far away place. We wish Mr. Crabtree would explain just how this is done, as profits are taxed under the Federal Income Tax law and I supposed that the taxes went to Washington whether the owners of a business lived in the village where it is conducted or in a large city far away. Perhaps...
...should like to hear from Mr. Crabtree, however, as to just what his meaning is when saying that chain stores pick up profits in villages which are taxed in a far away place. Perhaps he means that the money is sent to headquarters where it is taxed locally as money and credits, but we doubt this...
...druggists did last fortnight, so did many another earnest business man of other occupation. For with late summer comes the crescendo of the U. S. convention phenomena and last week the movement became acute. Going to, gathered at, departing from national conventions were druggists (wholesale, retail), chain store men, credit men, life insurance underwriters, traveling engineers, bakers, merchant-tailors and designers, bankers (men, women), radio manufacturers, accountants, safety engineers, laundry owners. Traveling at reduced railroad rates they had seen new places, participated in bridge and golf tournaments, elected officers, passed resolutions, been grave...
...chief concern to the retail druggists was how to fight chain stores and whether a store can sell books, caviar, lamps, vases and still fill prescriptions reliably. One figure that pleased the druggists was that 30 out of 100 druggists survive in business compared to eight grocers...
...while this figure pleased the druggists it was annoying to the National Chain Store Association, to whom a major problem is escaping the charge that the failure of small community stores is a result of chain methods. As an answer to this accusation Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce told the Association that most retail store keepers are grossly inefficient and W. T. Grant, head of a chain of 100 stores, declared that chains create new business and that the retailer should profit by chain store competition instead of going bankrupt...