Word: retail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curt orders in haste. Il Duce's logical and ruthless spirit was astir. Before the week was out he haded has "an Augustan conception of grandeur." 3) Decreed, to the discomfiture of Fascismo's capitalist well-wishers, that every merchant in Italy must display both the wholesale and retail price of his goods, and must throw open his books to the Government, which will permit him to make no more than what it considers a fair profit. 4) Inaugurated a tax on bachelors, the proceeds of which will be devoted to the care of "indigent women and children." Said...
...that morning had a softer feel, a fresher tang. David A. Schulte had begun business for himself and already was anticipating the contentment of his customers. They ought to appreciate fresh smokes, he had reasoned, and quick service and low prices. They did. Now D. A. Schulte Inc.'s retail stores number 300, many of them at locations he himself picked years ago, as he walked up and down Manhattan dreaming of future selling success...
...Whelan and his brother George J. Whelan entered a partnership to sell tobacco at wholesale in Syracuse, N.Y. They had a genius for selling, and so it was not many years before they had built up the United Cigars Stores chain. This chain now numbers close to 3,000 retail stores. Last year they did an $85,000,000 business...
During the same year Schulte retail stores sold $35,000,000 of goods. It would be fine, many an ambitious corporation promoter thought, if these two eminently successful selling organizations were merged. The idea is not new. Five years ago it was presented to Charles A. Whelan and David A. Schulte. Astute men both, they had long known the economies of a merger. But neither would yield the identity of his business. When the proposition was laid before David A. Schulte that he sell out to United Cigars Stores, he replied, in effect, "I'll buy out myself, United Cigar...
...reconsideration of the Jacksonville union wage scale for bituminous coal districts is to come up shortly, and as the result, foreboding consumers, fearing a possible strike, are buying supplies in huge quantities. Current shipments of bituminous are exceeding those of like periods of recent years. In Pittsburgh the retail price of bituminous, delivered to homes, rose to nine dollars a ton last week...