Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some food banks will slaughter, chill, cut, smoke or freeze, and package. For the urbanite they buy whole sides of beef from the meat wholesaler, cut it to chops, store it away. Extra charges: 1? to 5? a Ib. Even so, locker renters save 50 to 75% compared with retail meat prices; many a farmer eats choice beef...
Next Christmas, U.S. children will have to get along with 30-to-40% fewer toys than Santa Claus brought them last year. This was the sad conclusion of some 3,000 retail buyers who crowded together to stock up for Santa at the annual American Toy Fair in Manhattan last week...
...fashioned general store may have its renascence this year. That was the talk last week in the retail grocery trade. Since the expected 40 to 50% slump in food sales volume this year may liquidate at least one out of every six of the 580,000 U.S. food dealers, grocers figure their best hope of staying in business is to stock their bare shelves with other types of merchandise...
First to squawk at the invasion of their field was the National Association of Retail Druggists, who last week asked drug manufacturers to supply drugstores first. The trade...
...evident last week: a what-will-come-next buying wave skyrocketed department-store sales to 45% above 1942 in the first week after OPA's shoe-rationing order (TIME, Feb. 15). Despite Government assurances that rationing of other clothing was not in the cards, customers bought up retail clothing stocks as if they were the last they would ever see. The U.S. public had not yet learned that the best way to avoid rationing is to avoid overbuying in the first place...