Word: retail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...road and before long was driving through the high-grass towns of Pennsylvania, New York, and New England in a four horse team with bells on the harness. He was a good salesman. When other manufacturers cut under his father's prices he raised Wrigley scouring soap to retail at 10? instead of 3? and gave dealers an umbrella with every box they bought. He added baking powder to his line, and threw in a cook book or a box of chewing gum with every can. Finding that the gum went better than the baking powder he concentrated...
...United Cigar Stores of America, the Tobacco Products Co. and the Union Tobacco Co. While the Morrows are not identified with the large manufacturers, their position in the distributing end could make their influence mighty. If the raise in the wholesale price presages a return to the strict 15? retail price (now two for 25? in most places, 23? in large chain systems), the second menace to the tobacco industry will have been removed. Although chain stores can afford to sell cigarets at no profit, or even a loss, the war has been expensive to smaller merchants. With cigarets costing...
...druggists did last fortnight, so did many another earnest business man of other occupation. For with late summer comes the crescendo of the U. S. convention phenomena and last week the movement became acute. Going to, gathered at, departing from national conventions were druggists (wholesale, retail), chain store men, credit men, life insurance underwriters, traveling engineers, bakers, merchant-tailors and designers, bankers (men, women), radio manufacturers, accountants, safety engineers, laundry owners. Traveling at reduced railroad rates they had seen new places, participated in bridge and golf tournaments, elected officers, passed resolutions, been grave...
...chief concern to the retail druggists was how to fight chain stores and whether a store can sell books, caviar, lamps, vases and still fill prescriptions reliably. One figure that pleased the druggists was that 30 out of 100 druggists survive in business compared to eight grocers...
...annoying to the National Chain Store Association, to whom a major problem is escaping the charge that the failure of small community stores is a result of chain methods. As an answer to this accusation Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce told the Association that most retail store keepers are grossly inefficient and W. T. Grant, head of a chain of 100 stores, declared that chains create new business and that the retailer should profit by chain store competition instead of going bankrupt...