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...industry there came last week a code of ethics. Concerning only the marketing of oil, the code consisted of 19 articles, most of which dealt with relations between "refiner, wholesaler, distributor and jobber" and the "retailer." As gasoline is by far the most important petroleum product, particularly for U. S. consumption, the "retailer" is usually the filling station owner and the code deals chiefly with unfair methods of securing filling station distribution. It says that the wholesaler should not lease pumps, tanks or other equipment; should not pay the retailer's rent, put up his buildings, lease him land...
...Melodrama. In a stovepipe hat, and suiting of extreme flare, a jovial peddler startled New England villages out of their mid-century placidity to gape at a wagon resplendent with paint and varnish and polished brass, four white horses jingling the harness. Gilded letters announced "JAMES FISK JR. Jobber in Silks, Shawls, Dress Goods, Jewelry, Silver Ware, and Yankee Notions...
When the plaint of tobacco jobbers and retailers reached President George J. Whelan of the Union Tobacco Co.-that they were not making a living margin of profit on tobacco sales-President Whelan set up a smart system of selling them goodwill as well as tobacco. The system, as developed last week, is to give Union Tobacco stock shares to jobbers and retailers in proportion to their purchases. For every $1,000 of Union Tobacco goods a jobber buys he is to get one certificate of Union Tobacco stock worth nominally $30. That is a 3% bonus. For every...
...prize winning "price peace plan", according to the formal announcement of the competition, must cover a definite alley for the retailer, the jobber, the manufacturer, the chain store and the department store. It must include consideration of "free goods" and "hidden discount" problems. The workability and the legality of the plans, either under existing law or desirable modification, will be the chief criterions on which the judges will base their decision...
...rides a bicycle through New England peddling hardware. One of his German-Jew employers, Faber, is impressed with his warning that the jobber's day is done, that only manufacturers will survive the business slump. Faber's partner dies. Sam marries Faber's daughter Paula, not wholly for her dashing brunette looks. She brings a $25,000 dowry. Affairs at his and Faber's new nail factory in Bayonne, N. J., make him almost late for the wedding. That night he sits up late reading quotations on steel and pig iron...