Word: retail
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...proposed change would be the necessary reduction of the present exorbitant rates demanded for rooms, and Harvard would cease to be, as it is, notorious for the high prices which its students are compelled to pay for rent. It is true that the present high prices of the Cambridge retail dealers might suffer from the advent of the new road. but this would be more than counterbalanced by the opportunity afforded the students and the citizens of Cambridge of dealing directly with the large stores in Boston. It is asserted that the elevated road would destroy the business prospects...
...respects save that while Cambridge is more and more reserved for use as a residence suburb and a university town, Boston is more and more becoming a commercial metropolis and center of business. The local business of Cambridge has of late years indeed been of very slight account. Even retail tradesmen, in the vicinity of the college at least, have been few in number. A great part of the custom of students as well as of citizens has been transferred to Boston. Only recently a tradesmen occupying a store under one of the college buildings has failed and gone...
...cost. This seems silf-evident, but it is not always borne in mind by members or by outsiders. We learn that the superintendent has sometimes been hampered in his efforts to obtain goods from producers and wholesale dealers, by the efforts of these to prevent the trade of their retail customers from being injured by the society. A striking instance of this is the present situation in regard to stylographic pens, as described in the bulletin. Moreover, we are told that the difficulties of the superintendent in this respect have been increased by injudicious expressions on the part of members...
...Tennis Association will sell to members Ayres' regulation balls, which have been adopted by the National Association at the rate of five dollars a dozen. The retail price in Boston is seven dollars. The secretary of the association will be in his room, 32 Thayer, every morning from...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: A sample of the saving the Co-operative Society effects its members may be seen from the following: One tennis racket, $4.35; retail, $5.50. One net, $2.50; retail, $3.50. One set poles, $0.80; retail, $1.00. One set guy-ropes, etc., $0.65; retail, $0.75. One-half dozen Ayar's reg. balls, $2.90; retail, $3.50. Total cost to member, $11.20; total cost at retail, $14.25; saving to member, $3.05. Two dollars is the membership...