Word: consumerization
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The latest alleged trust to come under Federal surveillance deals in chickens, and is named the Live Poultry Dealers' Protective Association. This organization must now be as good as its title, and protect itself against the charge of being organized and of operating for the purpose of fixing the...
His argument is that the manufacturer passes his taxes on to the consumer. If these taxes are lightened the consumer will get the benefit by a decrease of prices that will save 2% of the taxpayers' income. In addition, Mr. Babson concludes that the passage of the tax reduction...
Strange to relate, there is also a large number of wholesalers, but in spite of this last competition among them has failed to keep prices of coal within the bounds of reason. And therein the Commission has found the catch. While in every crisis consumers have blamed the retailers, retailers...
The natural conclusion is that there are too many wholesalers, and while they may make very fine broth for themselves, they most certainly ruin the consumer's. Public control of industries has never been looked upon with favor and the Coal Commission has apparently fallen in with this sentiment by...
From one standpoint, the whole situation is in the main simply a phase of the regular business cycle; from another, it serves to illustrate the shortsightedness of the mercantile community. The year 1920 should have thoroughly taught the lesson that higher prices mean curtailed consumption. Today the very merchants who...