Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attribute to me in the Feb. 4 issue a statement that ". . . anyone is just a damned fool to buy anything at retail," that "more & more" of my wholesale electric-appliance business "is coming from 'discount houses.' " The fact is, I have never sold to nor received an order from a discount house, and in my opinion the consumer who patronizes [one] is a damned fool because he usually makes a bad investment, does not get his money's worth and seriously damages the legitimate and traditional American economy upon which the discount house is an unwarranted...
There were so few signs of other scarcities last week that wholesale and retail prices were slashed right & left. Wholesale prices are now 5% below their level of a year...
Skeleton News. Plastic skulls and skeletons for laboratory use are being turned out by three doctors in Gatesville, Texas. The plastic bones are about the same color and texture as the real thing. Retail price: skulls $60, skeletons...
Frederick Loeser & Co., Inc., second largest department store in Brooklyn, was long known as the favorite of the carriage trade. But in recent years Loeser's (rhymes with closures) lost much of its prestige and many of its customers. Last year, when retail trade slumped, Loeser's was hard-hit; on sales of $25 million it lost $600,000. This year looked no better; in January Loeser's lost nearly $100,000. Last week the 91-year-old store announced that it will close down, except for one small branch. The 1,400 employees will...
...getting so that anyone is just a damned fool to buy anything at retail," said James Shea, a big Dallas electric-appliance distributor. Shea, like many another U.S. appliance jobber, is finding that more & more of his business is coming from "discount houses" which offer everything from washing machines, refrigerators and TV sets, down to fountain pens, at 20% to 30% below list price...