INDEX
247
Grocery stores, locality served by, 172
modern methods, effects of, 118
survey, 62.
Group buying, 4, 25
Group ownership, department stores,
2
\[aid-Rite Corporation, 196
\[ail-order merchandising, 160
catalogs as advertising, 170
wide choice, effects of, 136
Manufacture, see Production
Mark-downs, 100
automatic bargain basements, go
buying, relation between, 101
~auses of, 108
first, loss smallest, 01
full-lines, marked to next lower,
102, 104, 1006, 167
handling highest-priced full-line
a factor in, 129
profits relative to, 109, 227
publicity for full lines, 102-103,
164-165, 167, 17L
slack periods eliminated, 106
style goods, 111, 156
turnover rate a factor in, x10
use under Model Stock Plan, 1o4~
105
\lerchandising, see also Operating
Methods; Retailing
basement stores, automatic bargain,
9o—99
buying calendar, see Buying calendar
“buying for the public,” 66
buying, plans for, 55
costs, 12
de luxe trade, 68
distribution of demand, 131
fixed-price buying, 27-29, 150, 167
group buying, 4, 25
hard times, effect of, 107
mark-downs as publicity for fulllines,
102-103, 164—165
mass, 116
distribution, 209, 216
production, 209, 216
selling, 120, 220
Model Stock Plan, adoption of, 36,
148
plans, objects of, 10
producers, cooperation with, 198
orofits when trade is declining,
142
records required, 62
stock records, 63
IY
Haberdashery, 104
Hats, single-price shops, 133
Holeproof, hosiery, 190
Hoover, Herbert, interest in simplified
practice, 15
Hosiery, manufacturing companies,
187-190
sales, automatic reorder plan, 180
daily reports of sales, 189
turnover rate, 18g-190
Hotel industry, 213, 215
Hotel Management, 214
Income, clientele in community,
selling price in relation to, 31
Independent Grocers’ Alliance of
America, 219
industrial revolution, first, 3
second, 115-116, II7
Tndustry, simplification of varieties,
ic
rr
Kresge, S. S. Company, fixed-price
level, 221
high-quality goods at cheap fullline
price, 21
T.
Libbey, W. S. Company, 193
Liggett, drug stores, 219
Literary Guild, 216
Louisville Grocery Survey, 62
AT
McAn, Thom Shoe Company, 221
Magazines, mass distribution, 216~
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