Cost of living in German towns

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Identifikator:: 866449027

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-93831

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Cost of living in German towns

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1908

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (LXI, 548 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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DRESDEN. 201 Retail Prices. In dealing with the subject of retail prices of food in Dresden special mention has to be made of two facts which are calculated to influence those prices in some measure. One is, that a considerable portion of the retail trade in provisions (other than butchers’ meat) .is in the hands of a few large under takings having between them about 70 branch shops in and about Dresden. The most important of these is the Consum-Ver ein “ Vorwärts,” one of the largest of the purely working-class co-operative distributive societies of a local character in Germany. Its membership on 30th June, 1905, was 23,092 (which may be taken to correspond to a working-class population of at least 100,000), and its sales during the year ended on that date amounted to £350,000 in 35 branch shops. A second undertaking of a somewhat similar character and doing business in the same class of goods is the Görlitzer Waareneinkaufsverein, formerly a co-operative association, but now registered as a joint-stock society owning 16 branch shops with a considerable working-class custom. A third large undertaking of the “ multiple ” order is engaged in dairying and has 20 branch shops selling butter, eggs, cheese and milk. In all the shops belonging to any one of these concerns the same article is sold at the same price, and as they are to be found in every locality where the working-class element is well represented, the possibility of any considerable local, variations in the prices charged by individual provision dealers is somewhat limited. The second fact to be noticed is the existence of a municipal tax on certain articles of food brought into the town, the tendency of which would be to increase the prices of those articles in comparison with towns where no such tax is imposed. The rates are, however, inconsiderable, as may be seen from the following table :— Rates of Octroi Duty levied by the Dresden Municipality on certain Articles of Food brought into the Town. (Beer, Venison and Game are also subject to this Tax.) Article. Wheaten flour ... Bread thereof ... ... ... Rye flour ... Bread thereof ... Wild rabbits Fish and lobsters Butter, meat extract, &c. Margarine Fresh meat, fat, &c. Salted and smoked meats Sausages Oxen, steers, cows Other horned cattle exceeding 3 cwt. in weight Calves over 14Ü lbs. and up to 3 cwt. in weight Calves weighing 140 lbs. or under ... Pigs Sheep Coats ... ... ... ... Unit. cwt. each lb. each Rate of Tax. S. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 ' 8 2 1 2 0 0 d. 2-1 11 6-1 5 5 0-6 0-2 1-1 0-2 0-2 03 0'5 0 0 0 0 0 6 18 It is evident from the above that the rates of the Municipal Tax are too small to have any appreciable influence in the direction of increasing the cost of articles lately consumed by the working classes. I rom another standpoint, however, the existence of the tax is of some importance, lor incidentally it furnishes useful data for ascertaining the consumption of certain articles of food in the town, a subject in which, as well as in the retail prices of food, the Municipal Statistical 0#ce has taken great interest for many years. In order to obtain trustworthy material for observing the course of retail piicesof provisions, an ofhcer of the Municipal Statistical Service has to visit a 2 C 29088

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