Report on the trade in refrigerated beef, mutton and lamb

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Identifikator:: 1800540760

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-185131

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report on the trade in refrigerated beef, mutton and lamb

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1925

Scope:: vi, 65 Seiten; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter V. The trade in Great Britain

Collection:: Economics Books

in the interests of both producers and consumers it is desirable that information as to the total stocks of meat in cold store should be available at any time to the general public. The Royal Commission on Food Prices, after hearing the evidence on the question, reported that they were satisfied that ‘‘ the time has come to require proprietors of cold stores to supply this informa- tion at regular intervals to the appropriate authority.” The weight of opinion, both in the trade itself and among the public, may be said to favour publication of total stocks held. (iv) Retail Distribution.—The final link in the chain which connects producer and consumer is the retail meat-seller. Supplies collected from numerous stock-owners flow from the freezing works like a mighty river until, as they approach their ultimate destination, there is a great dispersion, the river ending, as it began, in small streams. There is, too, a similarity of method at the extremities, for farming and meat-retailing remain two of the most individualistic ‘occupations. There are said to be some 40,000* retail butchers’ shops in shis country, most of them individually owned and worked by the owner. On the other hand, there are many instances of retail butchers who own and manage several shops in one district. There are, again, the chains of shops established by various importing companies; most of these, however, have been absorbed by the interests grouped under the Union Cold Storage Company, which are now said to control 2,356* retail departments. Lastly, many retail co-operative societies have their own butchery departments which may consist of one or several shops; similarly, and notably in London, these are the meat departments of departmental stores. It may be noted that the American meat companies do not control retail shops either in this country or in she United States. Retail distribution is the most expensive operation in the brocess of marketing, because of the relatively limited volume of business which each unit can conveniently handle and of the multiplicity of services which are normally required. The costs of retail distribution, hence, therefore, retail prices, vary with the nature and extent of these services. In contrast to the general uniformity of wholesale meat prices throughout the country, retail prices are not uniform even in the same street. [n the wholesale trade in imported meat, the country can be regarded as, more or less, one market; in the retail trade, every own and almost every district in a town is a market in itself, and prices may vary from shop to shop according to the lemands of customers in such matters as calling for orders, credit, delivery, style of shop, and, finally but not least important, the kind of joint. These and other questions relating to the meat trade were fully investigated by the Royal Commission on Food Prices,t and it is unnecessary to discuss them here. * ‘““ Report of Royal Commission on Food Prices.” Cmd. 2390. 1925. * Cmd. 2390. 1925. Part V. See also ‘‘ Report of Linlithgow Com- aiittee on Meat. Poultry and Eggs.” Cmd. 1927. 1923.

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