Word: retail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because companies pumping crude oil have not worked together, retail prices of gasoline have been dropping throughout the U. S. In Los Angeles last week the tank wagon price (usually two cents below the gasoline station price) was 6.5 cents a gallon. A survey of tank wagon prices elsewhere...
...second, because they are meaningless. My sense of humor protects me from applying the word 'Dry' to those supporters of a policy which has filled this nation, from Atlantic to Pacific, from the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande, with a traffic in intoxicating liquor, wholesale and retail, that is illicit, illegal, untaxed and stupendously profitable...
...Said one merchant: 'Ford fixes the prices at which his cars must be sold all over the country and rules the agents handling his goods with an iron hand, but he himself, in his retail stores, flouts the selling prices named by manufacturers of groceries, shoes and so forth [see below], . . . Ford apparently thinks he is entitled in his business to lay down rules for others, but that no other manufacturer in the country is entitled to do the same thing...
Fifteen hundred Detroit grocers, butchers, shoe store keepers and retail sellers of this-and-that railed at Henry Ford last week because his commissary stores were selling commodities to the general public - their customers. Mr. Ford's storekeepers (who sold $12,000,000 worth of goods last year) promised thenceforth to sell only to Ford employes, never to their neighbors...
...Francisco, peninsula port city, the Emporium Corp. is the largest retail concern; in Oakland, industrial city, railway terminal across San Francisco Bay, H. C. Capwell Co. is the leading department store. Last week they merged, will dominate trade among the Bay cities...