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Housewife to Wholesaler. As expounded by OPA, point rationing sounds easy: 1) The Government issues ration books and stamps to the public, and assigns specific point values to foods. 2) The housewife turns the stamps over to the grocer in exchange for goods, and the grocer, in order to replenish his stocks, sends the stamps along to the wholesaler. 3) The wholesaler turns these coupons over to his bank (where they are eventually destroyed) and gives him credit for the number of points they represent. 4) With this credit the wholesaler draws a check in favor of the canner...
...cope with the new money, grocery-men employ various devices: in Los Angeles a small store uses a cigar box with four compartments to sort out its stamps. In Atlanta another small grocer has his children work nights, and devotes all of Sunday to the job. In Philadelphia recently OPA failed to provide enough of the gummed sheets on which grocers are supposed to stick their ration coupons before turning them in to the wholesaler. As a result, salesmen of wholesaling houses came in with their pockets stuffed with ration coupons, dumped them into bushel baskets. The baskets were presented...
...Banking. OPA, under its humanizing policy (TIME, March 22), is now working hard to simplify the system. With the cooperation of the nation's 15,000 commercial banks, it has set up a broad system of ration banking such as Britain practices. Under this system, the small corner grocer can open ration point accounts in the bank and turn in coupons for credit. He may then draw a check on his account and present it to his wholesaler for more goods instead of giving the wholesaler a peck of coupons. More than a million ration accounts will mean more...
Whither the Grocer? Considering the size of the U.S., and the variety of the U.S. diet, rationing was bound to be more complicated in the U.S. than in Britain. Actually it is working a lot better than the gloomy grocery trade had expected. But there will be casualties. Despite the fact that national income is expected to soar to $140 billion from $120 billion, the grocers' gross this year will be down by 40-50%; his profit margin may be shaved from about 5% to about 3% of sales, due to increases in costs. As many...
Sausages and Airplanes. Without official reminders, Russian pilots know when it is U.S. planes they are flying, soldiers when it is U.S. shoes they wear, housewives when they use U.S. flour, sugar, lard and canned meats. New York Times Correspondent Ralph Parker went to a Moscow "gastronom" where the grocer told him: "Of course, we have had the American goods here. Not a lot; I should say about 10% of the total over six months...