Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...family with a monthly income of 1,200 escudos in May paid out 1,663 escudos for rent, food, clothing, water and light. Strictly controlled wages lag far behind. Government workers, especially important to a dictatorship, got a 25% increase in 1944 to meet a 112% rise in the retail price index...
Reaction to the campaign to keep the cost of living down has come from as far west as Buffalo, where an alumnus, head of an advertising agency and owner of eight retail meat markets, attacked the CRIMSON'S views as "non-economic" and "misled by OPA propaganda," and its methods as "child-like...
...spotty rises in the prices of basic materials and commodities were helping erect a tombstone over OPA. It would be hard, if not impossible, to roll prices back, even if OPA were resurrected. But not for weeks or months would the creeping commodity increases come out in retail price increases. Many a businessman who had pledged himself to hold the line would find that he had little choice if the basic pressures became strong enough. How strong had they grown in a week...
...once bought 40% of Bata's shoes, have already descended on Zlin. But Bata has no shoes for the U.S. as yet, and does not know when it will have. When it does, Bata may find it much harder to undersell U.S. shoemakers. Since 1939, the retail price of Bata's shoes in Czechoslovakia has increased from...
...Retail inventories were finally building up. As their shelves filled again, merchants anxiously gauged the size of the demand anew. Last week M. E. Coyle, new G.M. executive vice president, seemed to be voicing the anxiety of all industry, not merely of auto manufacturers, when he said: "We will catch up with the pent-up demand more quickly than many think...