The model stock plan

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Identifikator:: 1820833348

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-210730

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Filene, Edward A. http://d-nb.info/gnd/123562244

Title:: The model stock plan

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: McGraw-Hill Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: xiv, 253 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Introduction

Collection:: Economics Books

Kv INTRODUCTION We are now going through a period of change in methods of merchandising that is to distribution much the same thing the industrial revolution was to production. The goods produced in large quantities by our modern methods should have an equally economical and equally efficient distribution. Not every difficulty has been ironed out of manufacturing, but thinking observers realize that it is in merchandising that our major business problems are to be found. There has come a new era of ferment and of progress in business, an era in which many of our outworn traditions must be discarded. New methods are constantly being devised and tested. New ideas are being put into practice. The merchants who are eventually to emerge as leaders of their trades must keep their minds open and alert to the innova- tions that will bring different conditions next year or even ten years from today. There are tremendous opportunities in possible reductions in the cost of moving goods from producer to consumer, a field in which avoidable waste mounts into the billions of dollars. Much as in the case of the industrial revolution, there will undoubtedly be a great number of laggards in this new movement, merchants who are unable or unwilling to adapt unfamiliar methods to their own stores. These men will fail to realize the great advantages of riding with the tide of progress, rather than trying to move against it. Another class of merchants will draw upon the experience of others to enable themselves to reap a larger reward for a more efficient service to the consumer. It is for these that Mr. Filene has written “The Model Stock Plan.” In his endeavor to reduce his costs, the retail merchant will find great possibilities in a close cooperation with others whose business it is to place goods in the hands of the con- sumer. In this book, Mr. Filene describes the methods he has used to accomplish just such a result. His findings are the outcome of keen thought tempered by years of practical business experience and experiment. Turius Kien.

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