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...aswirl in its annual kimono sale-unquestionably the largest, silkiest, costliest and most colorful event of its kind anywhere. Thousands of kimonos were spread over an acre of selling space at prices averaging $350* and ranging up to $10,700. With a small army of 300 kimono-clad saleswomen amid the racks, Mitsukoshi officials expect to sell $2.1 million worth of the traditional Japanese garments before the sale ends Sept...
...Dart Industries' net profits. Tupperware products are sold by self-employed dealers, mostly housewives, who peddle the plastic food containers at home demonstration "parties." In order to maintain the evangelical zeal of the distributors, Dart regularly holds sales jubilees at which the most successful of the housewife-saleswomen are awarded such prizes as new cars, microwave ovens and all-expense trips to London and Tokyo with their husbands. Of late, Dart has found the seemingly all-American formula quite as valuable overseas: Tupperware has been expanding abroad, and per capita sales in France now surpass those...
...main consideration, they could hardly do better than sign on with Nashville's Southwestern Co. to spend their vacation peddling Bibles and reference-shelf books. Last week this longtime seller of books distributed door to door was busy training some of the 8,000 student salesmen and saleswomen who, in the next three months, will become an army of Gospel distributors. They will write up nearly all of Southwestern's $40 million in annual sales-and for themselves make an astonishingly good buck from the Good Book. A salesman's commissions for the summer will average...
...into its field sales force; two are already working, one is in training, and orders are out to hire at least seven more before September. Some retailers warned that women in selling would have trouble with lecherous buyers. Haas rejects that argument. A more serious concern is that married saleswomen with children could face problems at home if they were forced to put in three-day or four-day stretches on the road. "We let the woman decide if she can handle it," says Borrelli...
Even Rags itself occasionally succumbs to the temptation to laugh. Photo features on cosmetic-counter saleswomen ("a salute to the painted ladies") and middle-aged, uniformed delicatessen waitresses ("they always seem to accent their service with a gourmet seasoning called soul") are often less cruel than they first appear. For, if anything, the corporation is Rags's enemy and the corporation's victims, especially when cast in the role of cultural or economic underdogs, often become Rags's friends. In fact, the November cover story on girl-watching hardhats even manages, however perversely, to suggest that New York's construction...