The model stock plan

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Identifikator:: 1820833348

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

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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:: Chapter XV. The Model Stock plan makes greater total profits for every business

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CHAPTER XV THE MODEL STOCK PLAN MAKES GREATER TOTAL PROFITS FOR EVERY BUSINESS The Model Stock Plan applies to every kind of business. How the Model Stock Plan made transatlantic steamship passenger traffic more profitable. How it could be applied to American railroad passenger traffic. ‘The hotel industry’s crying need for three full lines. The opportunity in tourist camps. How the Model Stock Plan was applied to book publishing and to dollar stores. ‘The Woolworth store magazines. Will it fit plants and flowers? Economic changes already here and :mpending make its use compulsory. Standardized prices, the inde- pendent stores’ solution of the problem of chain competition. Railroad freight rates and mass distribution. The advantage of adopting the Model Stock Plan ahead of competition. Men’s shoe departments in the R. R. A. Serious dangers threatening distribution. Why bankers must favor the Model Stock Plan. The major advantages of the Model Stack Plan. THE epoch-making economic changes now in progress are proving that major improvements are available to every kind of business.! This is perhaps the greatest definite value to be found in these changes. Certainly the principles of the Model Stock Plan will fit every kind of business. The time-honored assertion that “my business is different,” has for the most part been dis- credited. No business is basically different from all other businesses, however much it may differ in outward appear- ances, and because it is basically like others, the application of the Model Stock Plan will greatly help it. Throughout this book we have seen how the principles, on which such successes as Ford, General Motors, and Wool- worth have been based, apply to every kind of retail business. In a preceding chapter we examined several cases selected from the many available in which manufacturers have 1The only possible exceptions, the businesses to which mass-production and mass-distribution methods are not applicable, are those constituting the very small proportion, ro or 15 per cent at most, which is wholly art or science. xf af 1

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