MORE PROFITS FOR PRODUCERS 197

Although we have space in this book for but few cases,
these actual case studies give some idea of the ways in which
successful manufacturers are already working along Model
Stock Plan principles. These producers are encouraging
their dealers to carry in the departments given over to their
products something approaching the specifications of a
Model Stock and to operate it along lines resembling to a
greater or less degree the Model Stock Plan.
It is evident from the cases cited in this chapter that some
of these admirable plans must be highly profitable both to
the store and to the manufacturer.. And there is every
reason why any one of the more soundly conceived departmental
 model stock plans advanced by manufacturers,
including as they do definite price lines, complete assortments,
 and close control of stocks to a minimum practicable
figure, can profitably be assimilated into the store-wide
Model Stock Plan with its standardized three full-line prices.
Thus it will increase the store’s total profits, make the store
into a more profitable customer for the producer, and lead the
manufacturers to concentrate their energies on factory
methods and on products that fit into the Model Stock Plan.