Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They did not smirk because Sears, Roebuck (1939 sales: about 23% over 1938) and Montgomery Ward (1939 sales: about 15% over 1938) were reported holding nearly the same margin over 1939, although both announced higher prices for the spring. Nor because January retail grocery sales, best in rural areas, were running 5% ahead of 1939. Nor because retail auto sales declined less than half as much as is "normal" in January, kept 26.6% ahead...
...Ohio State's business research bureau reported monthly on Ohio employment, retail sales...
When war started four months ago it caused a good many price fluctuations in the U. S. Few were so extreme as the retail price of sugar, which between Aug. 31 and Sept. 10 rose from 5? to as much as 10? in some stores. Result: Franklin Roosevelt made an example of sugar, removed the quotas controlling production and importation, effectively reduced the sugar price to about its pre-war level. Last week, the emergency passed and the ghost of 1915-20's sugar shortage laid, Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed new sugar quotas-a trifle smaller than...
...Census will ask wholesalers for tabulations of all goods they have sold during the year; among retail stores, which handle myriads of items, it will classify general categories...
Meanwhile, big oil companies put up too many gasoline stations, and price cutting took so much of the profit out of gasoline retailing that even a cooperative found it hard to save much in the spread between the wholesale and retail prices of gasoline. So, last year, Cowden got his board of directors to vote for building a co-op refinery. This week, near bleak little Phillipsburg on the Kansas prairies, the new $750,000 plant is making its first run of gasoline. Middle-sized as refineries go, it will supply 40% of C. C. A.'s needs...