Word: retail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prices will be 25 to 35 percent lower in the spring because retail prices, blocking the downward trend at present, will have to break then...
...support of his statement that the business outlook in the United States is favorable," which you rightly set forth in detail. However, in spite of these ten indications pointing toward prosperity, Mr. Babson believes that "the stage is set for a period of business depression" which will hit the retail dealer hardest of all. To prevent this depression a change of attitude is absolutely essential...
...have not yet reached the end of business unsettlement. The outlook for the next three to six months is the inauguration of price recessions among various basic commodities heretofore unaffected, the extension of price revisions to retail markets, an increase in the number of business failures, easier money as the result of the release of credit by liquidation in commodity market and an increase of security prices," is the forecast of the Advance Letter on General Business Conditions issued recently by the University Committee on Economic Research...
Even at a time when high prices throughout the country are tumbling, the profit-slicing which has been going on in Kansas City during the past few days is sensational enough to provoke consideration. Within an incredibly brief space of time the retail values attached to all articles of wearing apparel and shoes have been reduced by amounts equalling in many cases sixty percent. The sudden violence of the movement in this single district is sufficient to cause one to look beyond general conditions for an explanation...
...exhibit from the Bureau of Labor Statistics includes several charts and graphs dealing with the cost of living, the trend of retail prices for special articles and the trend of wages in specified industries. The exhibits of the Bureau of Immigration, the Bureau of Naturalization, the Children's Bureau, and the Woman in Industry Service deal with special problems of these different branches of the Department of Labor and the methods which they use to cope with these problems...