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...made . . . of bad faith or any subterfuge or secrecy on the part of the respondent in connection with its price policy." Open to all Kraft customers is a series of discounts from list prices varying with quantity purchased and method of delivery. On Kraft's loaf cheese a grocer gets 1? per lb. off if he buys in lots of from 30 lb. to 149 lb., another 1? for lots of from 150 lb. to 749 lb., and on up. On packaged cheese and salad products Kraft allows a 5% discount on orders amounting to $5 or more...
...July 27 issue of your valued publication there appeared a double-page advertisement of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, in which the spirit of Voltaire is portrayed as speaking through a village grocer in defense of liberty of expression: "I wholly disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death, your right...
Sirs: The following will correct the impression given by your article pp. 54 and 56, TIME, July 6, that Grocer Saunders of Memphis was the first in the "Self Serve" type of grocery. The fact is that Lutey Bros., Grocers, Butte, Mont., originated and operated under this plan from February 1912. This was four years before the advent of the Saunders Stores. Mr. Saunders adopted this idea very successfully, after learning about its results with Lutey Bros., Butte. This innovation in grocery retailing by Lutey Bros, was commented upon by trade journals- The American Grocer, New York, devoted several pages...
...astounded the grocery trade by starting Piggly-Wiggly Stores, Inc., in which customers did most of the work, got their groceries cheaply. Receiving a basket at an entrance turnstile, a shopper picked up her own purchases, carried them to the cashier's desk at the exit. By 1923 Grocer Saunders was rich and Piggly-Wiggly was a $7,000,000 corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Enraged at reports of wolfish raids on Piggly-Wiggly, Mr. Saunders once rushed to Manhattan in a special train with "a bag of gold" estimated at $4,000,000, proceeded...
...cleanser and found it to be the best on the market." "Evernew" also had a sorry ending. Its sponsor had to defend two of his salesmen who were haled into court by members of a Methodist Missionary Society who claimed the fluid had ruined their clothes. By last week Grocer Saunders had Keedoozle publicity well in hand, even if his store was still abuilding and may not open until next January. Keedoozle stores will be run by electricity. All articles for sale will be displayed behind glass. To purchase, the customer will insert a key in a hole...