Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Correspondents were told by U. S. motor men in Paris that such duties would mean doubling the retail price of Fords assembled in France, thus making it impossible for this car, shrewdly advertised as Le Ford Français, to compete with what French Ford salesmen call "other French cars" such as Citroens, Baby Peugeots, Baby Renaults...
...necessary to get the facts. With the cooperation of retail stores of every class and location in the "loop" an all-day census of shoppers was made. Nearly 100,000 persons were interviewed. Analysis of the result revealed that parked cars contributed not 25 per cent, of the number of shoppers, but 1.5 per cent...
...parking" has been a definite success in Chicago. Retail trade has increased rather than diminished. More people and more vehicles get in and out of the "loop" with a greater degree of convenience than before. Tremendous economies have been effected in the handling of merchandise by the increased efficiency of the streets...
Courses will be offered this summer in Finance. Interpretation of Financial statements, Manufacturing Policies, Public Utility Management, Retail Distribution, Sales Management, and Transportation. Each course, as in preceding sessions, will in itself require the full time of the men enrolled. Little change will be made in the scope of these various courses despite the shortening of the period; the work will rather be slightly more intensive than formerly...