Word: departmenters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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> Department of Commerce's October report from nearly 3,000 wholesalers showed a 6.5% drop in volume of sales, a 6.3% drop in dollar value from September. Meanwhile, inventories (from 1,729 firms) were up 3½% (in cost value) from September, 6% from October 1938.
> October food chain sales lost their September oomph. The Department of Commerce's index (unadjusted) which usually rises seasonally, fell from 107.2 to 106.9.
> Last week, the Department of Labor's all-commodity index, whose war-boom peak had been 79.5, slid to 79.1. The New York Journal of Commerce's more sensitive index (autumn peak: 82.4) was down to 80.9.
> ". . . The store that operates its own millinery department and is dependent for merchandise upon infrequent trips to the market by its own buyer . . . cannot hope to keep up with the style demands of the consumer."
> Important are millinery departments managed by syndicates, on lease, in department stores. One trick of less responsible syndicates: 1) to use a store's good name to sell bad goods at a high price, later move on to a new store.