Die Entwickelung zum Socialismus

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Identifikator:: 861747917

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-44176

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Vandervelde, Emile http://d-nb.info/gnd/118803905

Title:: Die Entwickelung zum Socialismus

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Verlag der Socialistischen Monatshefte

Year of publication:: 1902

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (231 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Erster Teil - Die capitalistische Concentration

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162 THE MODEL STOCK PLAN customers will not find in the highest-priced full line. The impulse that starts at the top with the de luxe buyer eventu- ally works all the way down to the basement store. Is it any wonder that a store like this can honestly advertise that it has an entire stock of bargains? No data are sufficient, on the present meager experience, to predict how immense will be these advantages to the store. But it is perfectly possible to foretell major advantages to the men and women who, before this plan is put to work, are buyers for the whole department.! Many of them, under this arrangement, will become division merchandise managers supervising the buyers in charge of each of the three full lines. And of course, in this position, the former department buyer will encourage the competition between his subdepart- ments. Any interference with this inside competition, such as trying to limit one full-line buyer from getting the very best in values regardless of how effectively they compete with the line next above his own, would be suicidal to the effectiveness of the plan. The Model Stock Plan, simply but definitely carried out in a large store; brings into each department this helpful com- petition. The result is incomparably better values all through the store. In fact, I have had definitely in mind the possibility of creating a chain of department stores operated on the Model Stock Plan throughout. The buying of each class of goods constituting a full line at one of the three prices will be in the hands of a separate buyer, who will be responsible for that department in each and every store of the chain. This will, then, be essentially a chain of department stores, every department of which is itself part of a chain. It will be essentially chains within a chain. And with each of these buyers concentrating his energies and ambitions on a single 1 As we have seen in Chaps. V and VI, buying for the basement store and the de luxe departments should not be, in any event, under the control of full-line buyers. To permit such a condition would destroy the effectiveness and profit possibilities of these sections as separate entities within the Model Stock store, as well as diminish the concentration and total profits of the three full-line buvers.

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