Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...returns. It offered to give its customers a merchandise bonus of 7% on their purchases three times a year, provided that their returns in the previous four months had not exceeded 10%. Jane Engel seemed to be cashing in on the plan already. Although total New York City retail sales lagged 8% behind last Christmas, Engel's reported that its sales were...
Built Up. C.C.A. branched out, now produces 80% of the products it sells to its 1,400-member co-ops to retail. While prices are competitive with big chains, co-op members get refunds at the end of the year out of "savings" (i.e., profits). Last year, out of $6,700,000 in profits, C.C.A. members got refunds of $5,000,-ooo. C.C.A.'s growth has been helped enormously by the break co-ops get in tax laws. Unlike a corporation, which pays an income tax on dividends, C.C.A. pays no ^ taxes on its refunds. C.C.A. never claimed exemption...
Before Christmas, Sears retail stores will start selling the Allstate, a new car made for it by Kaiser-Frazer. The car will look like K-F's four-cylinder Henry J, differing only in trim and other incidentals. Sears did not set a retail price but it now sells for $1,362 f.o.b. Detroit. Sears will sell it in 17 cities in the South and Southwest...
...paradox is that the more juice the industry sells, the less money it. makes. Last year, both Minute Maid and Snow Crop-the industry's big two-had a rough time. The trouble? The cost of oranges skyrocketed from 46? a box to $2.12, while at retail the industry has been racked by price wars which have recently forced juice producers to sell below cost...
...cooperative (no taxes on distributed profits) cannot solve all the industry's problems of cut-price competition. Some 14,000 members of the California Fruit Growers Exchange have sunk $4,000,000 into Sunkist's processing machinery. But the exchange, which recently set below-cost retail prices to try to grab the frozen concentrate market away from the older eastern brands, is losing money, and orange growers are squawking...