Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ring has now been given powers to tamper with almost everything in Germany, powers so sweeping that this fact is of radical significance and a blow to laissez-faire Capitalism. Another blow was an intimation from the Minister-President that he will fix by decree on Nov. 9 the retail price in Germany of meat and meat products, including beef, pork, tallow, lard, bacon, ham and sausages...
...when the grief of independent grocers and wholesalers over chainstore competition was deepest. Accountant Grimes founded IGA. His accounting partners, William W. Thompson and Louis G. Groebe, became IGA secretary and treasurer, respectively. With a firm of advertising and merchandising experts they set up an organization to service retail grocers, show them how to run chainstores without selling out to them. Significant was their idea of doing the servicing not directly but through established wholesalers...
...expire on Election Day is the contract by which TVA has refrained from invading vast Commonwealth & Southern Corp.'s retail power market in the Tennessee Valley. Now in the process of laying duplicating transmission lines and primed to generate 200,000 h. p., TVA is potentially ready to strike at Commonwealth & Southern and other power companies in the neighborhood by absorbing 60% of their market. At stake was also the future of many another private utility company with which the Governments other great power projects are potential competitors...
According to the Commission the best price that a retailer could get from Bird on a certain type of rug was $4.24 in lots of 100 rolls or more. Ward got them for $3.64 in carload lots. Even when delivered in small lots to Ward's retail stores the price was only $3.82. Independent wholesalers, however, got practically as good terms as the big mail order house...
...some cases big buyers may be driven even further into their own manufacturing operations. In others the manufacturers may have to choose the type of customer they intend to sell to, for the law seems to preclude the wide price differential necessary to retain both a wholesale and a retail trade...