Word: retail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business situation this Fall has not lived up to the expectations entertained for it earlier in the year. Wholesale demand, except for building materials, has slackened significantly, and merchants are finding again that the consumer vigorously resists retail prices continuously jacked...
...ordinary business cycle, it is the raw material manufacturers that first feel an oncoming decline in prosperity, next the manufacturers of finished goods, then the wholesale and retail merchants, finally the consuming public and its landlords. Thus far the first-named class has been acquainted with declining activity; now the manufacturers of finished goods are about to feel it; next Spring, if not before, the mercantile world should be reached...
...other course, given by G. B. Roorbach, Professor of Foreign Trade, is on Latin-American markets and trade and is given for the first time this year under the Leatherbee bequest, in place of the course on Retail Store Management given last year...
...indications of a prosperous Autumn trade now close at hand. The domestic situation has been sufficiently cheerful to counteract such pessimistic foreign news as the Japanese earthquake, the Italo-Greek imbroglio and the economic flounderings of the latest German Government. It is evident that the present momentum of the retail trade should carry well through the late Autumn, unless some unforeseen calamity or calamities develop. Pig production, however-a good index of general production-has fallen off, and the extractor and manufacturer is likely to view the future with more misgiving than the merchant and retailer...
After a Summer as dull as most and more uncertain than many, relief was generally expressed at the quickening impetus given to trade by the Fall season. While it is still early for the Autumn business to be reflected in retail trade, the wholesalers are already experiencing more inquiries and sales. Our foreign trade statements show an improvement in export and large imports of raw materials for manufacturing. Prospects for heavier exports are not particularly bright, however, until the European tangle begins to be unravelled. Still, a highly satisfactory domestic business is almost everywhere anticipated for the Fall...