Word: retailers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...company which he had so long managed belonged unquestionably to U. S. Big Business. During 1928, Coca-Cola showed a net of $10,189,000, an earning of $10.19 per share. At 105,000 soda fountains U.S. citizens were saying "Give me a Coca-Cola." At 600,000 retail outlets the corrugated little Coca-Cola bottle was being dispensed. Thirsty wayfarers in the U. S. and in 75 foreign countries consumed Coca-Cola at the rate of more than two million gallons a year. Every day eight and a half million glasses of Coca-Cola are drained to their sugary...
...salespersons, the customer tours the store with a large basket, makes her own selections from neatly-stocked shelves. In spite of its apparent latitude to shoplifters, the Piggly Wiggly idea has proved extremely successful, partly because of its novelty, partly because neat packages and large advertising appropriations have made retail grocery selling almost an automatic procedure...
...retail price of a box of matches is fixed by law at two lei (1.18?) for 1929, but after July, 1930 will be jacked up to three lei (1.77?). Royalties approximating $3,000,000 annually will be paid to the State, and the Trust agrees to retain Rumanian workmen in the local match factories. Legislation embodying these momentous arrangements was voted, last week, by the Rumanian Chamber of Deputies...
Into the chain store field last week went Innovation Trunk Co. of Manhattan, makers of wardrobe trunks. Following recent new financing, the trunk company has announced its intention of marketing its product, both wholesale and retail, through a chain of stores soon to be established in various large U. S. cities...
Likewise on Fifth Avenue, and just one block from Black, Starr & Frost is the retail store of the Rhode Island silver-&-goldsmiths, Gorham Manufacturing Co. For almost a century Gorham silver and gold has furnished U. S. dining rooms, churches. Gorham bronze has gone into the careful details of U. S. buildings...