Word: retail
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
During the six-week decline no less than $15,000,000,000 in paper values have been wiped out. And the state of paper values has a potent influence on the state of public spending. As a result, retail stores began to worry over fall sales. Estimates for fall steel production were revised from 75% of activity to 70%. New financing was postponed. And the National Association of Purchasing Agents, cagiest of all buying groups, saw fit to warn that buying should be "conservative" when there was so much uncertainty, even though there is "no real fear of a serious...
...Paris, Rochas sells models both to individuals, retail, and to stores, "wholesale" for copying. In Manhattan he will sell retail only, at prices from $300 up, higher than any other U. S. dressmaker. All dresses will be made on order, all designs created in Paris. The collection shown this week includes about 100 dresses and will not be shown to Rochas' private customers in Paris until October. Rochas' clothes, generally simple and neat, often have vigorous color combinations. Rochas makes no hats, but does produce three brands of perfume: Audace, Ave. Matignon and Air Jeune...
Last week's deal with Consumer Distribution Corp. was a feather in the cap of philanthropic Merchant Filene, who since 1909 has been preaching the gospel of co-operative retail merchandising, financing co-ops through the uncooperative profits from Filene's Department Store. Consumer Distribution Corp. is the first enterprise of a new $1,000,000, Filene-financed corporation formed a year and a half ago to establish a nation-wide league of U. S. cooperatives. It will run Greenbelt's general store, food and meat market, drugstore, cinemansion, barber shop, garage and milk route. Prices will...
...logical outcome of bumper crops which would still leave farmers with the biggest income in years. Industrial and agricultural bank loans attained the highest figure in five years ($620,000,000), while airconditioning equipment production, cigaret sales and electric power output were at all-time peaks. Moreover, retail sales were zooming happily. Payrolls were still fattening. In view of such indices the prospect for fall business looked much like an oft-batted tennis ball which when dropped still has plenty of bounce, but not quite so much as human hearts have hoped...
...bank grew into the present Anglo California National Bank, fourth largest in California (total assets: $239,500,000), with Herbert Fleishhacker president, his quieter, older brother, Mortimer, chairman. Generally reputed to be heavy but highly successful investors, the Brothers Fleishhacker have interests in shipping, agriculture, oil, paper, mining, hotels, retail stores, cement...