Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME ERRS BADLY IN STORY ON ESQUIRE MAGAZINE ISSUE OF OCTOBER SIXTEENTH STOP MENS STORES HAVE NO MORE INTENTION OF GIVING AWAY COPIES OF ESQUIRE THAN OF GIVING AWAY GARTERS SOCKS HANDKERCHIEFS OR ANY OTHER FIFTY CENT RETAIL ARTICLES STOP ESQUIRE IS SOLD THROUGH MENS STORES SIMPLY AND SOLELY BECAUSE IT IS A MANS PRODUCT AND MENS STORES ARE ITS MOST LOGICAL POINT OF SALE. . . . THERE IS NO BASIS ON WHICH A MAN CAN GET A FREE COPY OF ESQUIRE ON WHICH HE COULD NOT GET A FREE COPY OF TIME...
...President keynoted, perhaps with oblique reference to Japan and Germany, "that it is only through constant education and the stressing of the ideals of Peace that those who still seek imperialism can be brought into line with the majority." ¶ In spite of pleas by the National Retail Dry Goods Association to move Thanksgiving up a week so that the Christmas shopping period might be lengthened. President Roosevelt announced that, as usual, the holiday would be observed the last Thursday in November. His own Thanksgiving bird was picked for him at the Chicago poultry show: a bronze, 40-lb. gobbler...
Thus it appeared that the retail and drug codes would go to President Roosevelt with the price-fixing sections intact, but Washington believed that he would await the findings of A. A. A.'s Peek on the Food Code before he made them the law of the land. Meanwhile NRA rushed to nearly every U. S. industry and to all magazines and newspapers, sample advertising copy to start its consumer campaign with the slogan: NOW IS THE TIME...
Buyers' Strike? Individual retailers (but not their trade associations) began to have misgivings. Perhaps price-fixing was not the Godsend they believed. Though it was estimated that September dollar sales were 8% to 10% above a year ago, the rise was more than accounted for by increased prices-proof that the volume of trade was off. Merchants talked nervously of a Buyers' Strike. Consumers feared that retailers would use the code as an excuse for general price-upping, particularly in communities where competition was slack. The NRA had been used as an excuse before. In July the price...
...major code out of the way, General Johnson gave his off-hand opinion of Article VIII: "Economists say this invoice cost plus 10% is pyramiding, but I can't see that. We want to stop widespread price-cutting. There isn't a business that can make a retail turnover on less than 10%. There are some esoteric arguments made against the plan, but I can't see them...