Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charge-account sales represent about 23% of all U.S. retail trade. In medium-price department stores, 35 to 50% of volume is charged; in higher-price stores...
...noonday minutes this Wednesday, a million or more retail stores refused to sell any merchandise, no matter how importunate their customers. Reason: they were selling nothing but war bonds and stamps. This "White-Out-For-Victory" was the bright idea of the Treasury's Retail Advisory Committee Chairman, Benjamin S. Namm (Namm Store, Brooklyn, N.Y.), who also sparks the N.R.D.G.A.'s "Retailers-for-Victory" drive. War-minded, promotion-wise Major Namm hoped his White Out would sell as much as $100,000,000 worth of war bonds and stamps...
...upholsterer, the locksmith, the cleaner and the garageman around the corner-to mention a few-can charge no more for their services than they did last March.- OPA so ordered last week as it slapped ceilings over just about everything the law allows, brought 1,000,000 retail "commodity service" establishments and $5 billion-worth of business under price control...
...picnic is over on retail sales, as the 1942 lines (see graph) clearly show. The drop would be still sharper if the graph reflected unit instead of dollar volume, for dollar volume in April was inflated by prices 17% higher than in April...
...durable-goods boom collapsed of necessity when manufacturing of autos, refrigerators, etc. was stopped and hoarding ate away retail stocks. Then the public began to stock up on nondurable goods, but by February hoarders were glutted enough to ease up a bit on soft goods...