Word: woolworths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some economists might take the increase in A. & P. sales as evidence not of prosperity, but of just the reverse. Reasoning in hard times: people buy at cheap stores rather than at more expensive stores. However, F. W. Woolworth & Co., quintessence of cheapness in retailing, reported a drop in sales for the half year...
Nest In Burlington, Vt., an English sparrow built its nest in the mane of Tommy Woolworth, horse...
...assembled Vagabonds the story of the shot heard round the world. For he feels that only a wanderer can show a good Bostonian the beauties of the local scene. The Vagabond has no birthplace and no local pride, and so he has been able to show the Woolworth Building to New Yorkers, Independence Hall to Philadelphians, and the Loop to the inhabitants of our Western metropolis. And similarly he will not forget to teach Bay Staters to browse beside their far-sung rocks and rills...
Chain stores make money by piling up tiny profits. In one year the F. W. Woolworth Co. sold 45 tons of candy, 5,113 miles of curtaining, 54 million handkerchiefs. Miss Pidgeon showed that, though their sales had doubled in a decade, this enormous turnover brought no enormous wages to salesgirls. Labor is a prime item in chain-store operation. Where customers can readily see the entire stock, make their selections unaided, the cheapest, most inexperienced young clerk can perform the simple task of wrapping bundles, ringing up receipts...
...Woolworth...