Word: retailers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general field of retail merchandising may be considered as divided into two distinct divisions, which I shall discuss separately, -- Department Store Merchandising, and Chain Store Merchandising...
...Winston Churchill's fifth and present Budget (TIME, April 22). The Chancellor (Conservative) had abolished the tax on tea which Englishmen have paid grumblingly since the middle of the 17th century, which American colonists refused to pay at their famed "Boston Tea Party." Throughout England last week the retail price of tea- which Britons drink at the rate of 10 Ib. each per annum-fell fourpence a pound (8?), much to the satisfaction of poor and thrifty citizens who would ordinarily vote Laborite. Perhaps some of them will now gratefully vote Conservative. Therefore the angry Labor pixie spat...
Last week these various bad pennies turned up at a stockholders' meeting of Schulte Retail Stores Corp. The meeting was extremely raucous, with President David A. Schulte centre of the storm. Hecklers maintained that Schulte directors were selling their Schulte stock and that Wall Street knew that Schulte earnings were shrinking before Schulte stockholders had any suspicion that all was not well. To them Mr. Schulte replied that no common dividends might be paid for the rest of the year, that if cut pricing prevailed there might be no dividends for the next five years, that...
...still drugstores in the real sense.* Even Katz's in Kansas City, one of the biggest U. S. stores, with 50,000 separate items in stock, take pride in its accurate prescription work.* The expansion of such department drugstores and of the chains has led many a retail pharmacist to deal purely in drugs. Cleveland has Sherwood's; Manhattan, Timmermann's Apothecary; Baltimore, Hynson, Wescott & Dunning; Detroit, Seltzers; Atlanta, Marshall & Bell; San Francisco, Keck's Prescription Stores; Chicago, Wright & Lawrence. A development of the past few years is the prescription office, with its waiting room like...
Doctors, lawyers, teachers, many another member of the professional class, can enter upon a career only after long training, special licenses, impressive degrees. But anyone with a little money and an obliging wholesaler can open a small retail business. Painful is this situation to Professor Paul D. Converse, retail business expert at the University of Illinois...