Word: retailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convenience factor," catalogue companies today emphasize telephone shopping. Sears maintains 58 catalogue switchboards around the nation, keeps the busiest of them open on a round-the-clock basis. Credit purchasing has been added to catalogues, and deliveries have been speeded up. Catalogue prices run 4% under those of retail stores because of savings in sales forces and advertising. Catalogue sales, as a result, now account for more than one-fourth of all sales volume and are growing fast...
...counterpart of the U.S. Narcotics Bureau-showed up at Desist's 14-room home at Saint-Jean-leBlanc and arrested him in connection with smuggling 209 Ibs. of pure heroin into the U.S. The narcotics, worth $2,800,000 wholesale and as much as $100 million retail (after cutting and diluting), had been found in a shack at a Columbus, Ga., trailer court. It was the biggest single haul of heroin ever captured...
Furthermore, different quantities of the drugs had been prescribed -- and prices vary with the quantity of the prescription. In addition, students filled the prescriptions at drug stores throughout the Boson area. Some of the stores reported were wholesale outlets and some retail, like the pharmacies in the Square...
...doubt very much that our arrests would rise sharply if we changed our policies," Merrill commented yesterday. Although the Coop lost $113,000 last year in unaccounted inventory -- most of which was probably due to shoplifting -- this is well within the national retail store average, Merrill said...
...million in revenues, its profits were a mere $8,639,000 v. H.F.C.'s record $35,485,000. Why, then, did the loan firm want City Products? Household's bluff, $168,704-a-year president, Harold E. MacDonald, 65, who spent 22 years in retailing, figures that the same talents that enable H.F.C. to merchandise small loans so successfully will work to produce profits in retail chain merchandising. Since he took over the 87-year-old finance company in 1951, MacDonald has tightened up operations, spruced up offices and standardized procedures so much that 37% of H.F.C...