Word: retails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President McLaurin's method of attacking the A. & P. organization was the subtle way of innuendo. Said he: "It would not be accurate to state that the Atlantic & Pacific represents at this time a monopolistic control of retail food distribution, but we do undertake to express our opinion that the organization as now conducted, possesses the potentiality of a control of retail food distribution to such an extent as to threaten the best interests of the American public. Is Federal control of that organization in prospect? Will the conduct of chain stores generally be such within the next...
This roundabout suggestion of Federal investigation followed the positive demand made in Manhattan last week by the executive committee of the National Association of Retail Meat Dealers that the Federal Trade Commission study the business methods of all chain store organizations. The butchers accuse the chain stores of misleading advertisements, false bargain sales, short weights and price cutting...
...were planned jointly or with premeditation, their coincidence means that food distributers are developing an aggressive defense against the expansion of chain store business. Such tactics may indeed stir food chains to merge. At present they number about 800 (with 60,000 stores competing with about 300,000 independent retail stores). Hitherto chain stores have been highly individualistic, each system spreading out like strawberry vines from a parent plant. Nor have they, except for the Kroger grocery stores and the J. C. Penney dry goods stores, done much to soften public opinion excited against them by the neighborhood store keepers...
...alarm at the entrance of the first Atlantic & Pacific Tea store, the first Woolworth or the first Liggett. Alarm among luncheon club members increased last week when they learned that there was another invasion to fear. Montgomery Ward & Co., Chicago, announced that within a year a chain of 150 retail stores would be in operation under their name...
...campaign of R. H. Macy and Co. Inc., of New York, and to Davis Greek Inc., Brooklyn, N. Y. was awarded a prize of $2000 for the campaign of D. & G. Sutures, in the industrial campaign field. Under the heading of "Scientific Research in Advertising" a research study entitled. "Retail Shopping Areas" from the J. Walter Thompson Co., New York City, won a prize...