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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218 THE MODEL STOCK PLAN . produce roses in winter, and that with the present price of coal it is impossible to lower production costs. Is this objec- tion necessarily valid? Is it absolutely necessary that roses for northern customers be raised in the North where coal need be used? Perhaps they can be produced in the open air at open-air production costs by raising them in southern climates, in Florida and in parts of Central and South America from which fruits are already so successfully brought. The large pompon chrysanthemums which sell in such great quantities in the East, especially during football season, are grown in California for the autumn trade. Undoubtedly, flowers could pay transportation costs better than vegetables and fruits, which are bulkier in proportion to value. Another point about flowers: A wholesale florist recently informed me that in his city the retail price of most cut flowers is about three times the wholesale price. This, he said, is necessary because of the large quantities lost through wilting. As long as the prices are such that the mass of the people can buy flowers only for weddings and funerals and special occasions, just so long will the demand be irregular and impossible of the most effective planning. Let the price be lowered to a point where the masses of people can afford to buy flowers as freely as they now buy candy, and the increase in sales and the consequent decrease in overhead expenses will make the loss through wilting relatively unimportant. This is the kind of thinking about production that will come when the principles of the Model Stock Plan are gener- ally understood and applied. Experience has already shown that analyzing the Model Stock Plan and applying it to lines where it is not now applied will probably suggest extraordi- nary opportunities. Changes are coming on rapidly and radically in all business, more particularly in the field of distribution. They are coming so rapidly that every store and wholesale house and manufacturing company organized and doing business along the traditionally accepted lines must make major adjustment to these changes. ¥ Otherwise, there is no assurance that the

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