Word: consumerization
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Died. Edward Albert Filene, 77, millionaire Boston merchant and amateur economist; of lobar pneumonia; in Paris, France. From a small beginning, Merchant Filene built his ready-to-wear specialty shop, William Filene's Sons Co., into a potent Boston firm. There he tried to put his philanthropic ideology into...
Present high prices are due to the unforeseen occurrence of heavy droughts in 1934 and 1936, just after the New Deal's Agricultural Adjustment Administration had slaughtered huge numbers of swine and cattle. Last week it became evident that others beside the consumer have felt this acute livestock shortage...
Last week's deal with Consumer Distribution Corp. was a feather in the cap of philanthropic Merchant Filene, who since 1909 has been preaching the gospel of co-operative retail merchandising, financing co-ops through the uncooperative profits from Filene's Department Store. Consumer Distribution Corp. is the...
In Washington one day last week, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace made two announcements. One was that R. A., moribund since Dr. Tugwell resigned last winter, was at last officially dead. The other was that Greenbelt was at last ready for occupancy and that, when its first tenants move...
In general, Author Crow's problem was one of learning (by U. S. advertising standards) to do business standing on his head-a position which produced a remarkable number of headaches. In explanation he cites the Chinese consumer's upsidedown wish to buy rather than be sold, his...