Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Macy's reported that increased volume already makes up for lowered retail profits...
...still brighter shade tinted the National Industrial Conference Board's monthly report from about 500 (also unrepresentatively prosperous) manufacturers: June orders were 17% above the average for 1936, while shipments rose only 11%. At the same time, it seemed that manufacturers were not passing on inventories to wholesalers & retailers, for retail sales (automobiles, department stores) rose...
...more than one price spurt by methods not always polite. Last fall the posted steel price threatened to rise; the Temporary National Economic Committee called steelmen to Washington, argued for low prices, hinted at an anti-steel publicity campaign; the steel price stayed put. When housewives started to hoard retail sugar (TIME, Sept. 23), the President untied import quotas; in came Cuban sugar, down went prices. Copper began to move upwards; the President said the price was being watched, and the move slackened. Few weeks ago domestic mercury sold as high as $200 a flask. So the Administration stopped issuing...
...face of the danger of a war-born retail price rise during the next six months, the price cuts of the two big mail-order houses were important-for neither merchant is likely to change his prices until next January's catalogue...
...purpose is to use U. S. mass production to get their designs into ordinary U. S. homes. Though their simple, substantial furniture is well fitted for mass production, the Aalto assembly line has not yet cut prices to the ordinary buyer's range. In full operation, it will retail an armchair now priced at $29.50 for $19, a $47 chest of drawers for $24, a $15 side table for $9. The Aaltos have already attained space-saving by designing stools that nest into each other, side chairs and even armchairs that can be stacked 20 high to save space...