Word: retailers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Both of the courses which are this year being offered for the first time are open only to second-year students. Professor P. T. Cherington will give the course on Retail and Wholesale Store Management, while Mr. H. C. McCarty, lecturer on Marketing, will give the one on Purchasing...
...former course makes a study of the essential features of the half-million large retail stores in the United States, through which the bulk of the products of the country are distributed to consumers, and then analyzes the principles on which a retail store should be arranged. Accounting methods, buying practice, stock records, and store organization and management are the main subjects considered...
...success of the Bureau's important work is well illustrated by the fact that the Chicago Credit Man's Association recently voted to adopt the Harvard system of accounts for retail grocers, and is now sending names of retailers to whom copies of the accounting system are to be sent. This accounting system has worked so well for retail grocers that the National Wholesale Grocers' Association wishes to have the Bureau cooperate with its committee in creating a uniform system for all wholesale grocers...
...year's business, there seems to be no danger of a shrunken dividend in the near future. Even better still, these figures demonstrate the soundness of the co-operative principle and prove that the profit-sharing plan can more than hold its own with any other plan of retail business when given a fair opportunity...
...Bureau has received operating figures form over 1,000 retail shoe firms and over 1,076 retail grocery firms. In addition to the work in the retail trade, a uniform accounting system of shoe wholesalers was published in July as a result of an investigation of this branch of the trade. There is at present in press a similar accounting system for wholesale grocers which will appear in about a month. Finally, a Harvard system of stock keeping for shoe retailers, on which the Bureau had been working for a couple of years, has recently been completed...