Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sales last week were 4% under the same period last year, when there was still some Korean war scare buying. The wholesale price index was 3% under a year ago, and just about at the low point for the last twelve months. The drop has already been reflected in retail price cuts in textiles, leather goods and furniture. By spring, other retail prices, which normally lag several months behind, may be down...
...five-day week has changed Saturday, the traditional peak shopping day, into a "stay-at-home" day. Speeding the trend is the fact that the defense program, drawing more & more wives into the labor force, makes it harder for women to shop during the day. The National Retail...
...because the price was too high. It had reached more than 105% of parity and OPS Boss Mike Di Salle can control any farm products above parity. He rolled back white potato prices 5% to 26% at farm and wholesale levels and will soon follow with similar rollbacks at retail levels. Potato growers promptly protested. They thought that supply & demand would cure the high prices just as they had the low. Their sensible argument: to cash in on the high prices, potato growers would soon raise so many potatoes that the U.S. would have a glut again-and prices would...
Malcolin McNair '16, Lincoln Filene Professor of Retailing, told 6,000 delegates to the 41st Annual Convention of the National Retail Dry Goods Association yesterday that he expected higher earnings for American retailers this year...
This benignity is supplemented by the vast Swedish cooperatives. They operate 8,000 retail shops, ten regional wholesale houses and 40 factories producing everything from canned goods to shoes. The cooperatives have a network of schools, newspapers and housing projects...