Word: retail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still held up on account of the high cost of materials and construction. The Directors hope, however, that a start may be made this spring. The proposed building, which will extend from Harvard Square through to Palmer street, will give the Society one of the largest and finest retail stores in the metropolitan district outside of Boston. It will be of thoroughly modern construction with three floors available for business...
...departments of business together, was 23.4 percent of the volume of business. The ration of expenses to sales was 12.28 percent. In other words, it cost the Cooperative Society about twelve and a quarter cents, on the average, to sell each dollar's worth of goods. Compared with retail stores in the million dollars year class, this expense ratio is believed to be very favorable. It is the aim of the Cooperative Society to sell goods at the market price the same as other stores, no more and no less. The main difference is that the Cooperative turns back...
This competition affords an exceptional opportunity for the candidates to gain a knowledge of business methods and the relation of the retail trade to the consumer, not only from the personal but from the newspaper advertising standpoint. This knowledge of business and the experience gained will be of great value to the candidate, whether or not he wins the competition...
...through which the Socialist Party is working to procure its ends, namely, through the unification of the separated movements for democratic control; through the gradual gaining of legislative control, with an organized Labor Party as a background; through the combining of consumers in cooperative organizations to control wholesale and retail trades; and through education, with attention also to the lessons of European experience...
...spite of these cuts in wholesale figures retailers are making a desperate effort to keep retail prices up until they can "unload" their present high cost stocks on the public at "old.prices...