. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 12 The Florists^ Review January 23, Where the Work It Put Up in the Fleischman Store. nearly 100 feet long devoted to the making up of work and filling orders. A customer visits the store: The sales- man writes the order on the blank provided for that purpose; it is passed through the cashier's window, into the hands of the bookkeeping department and thence goes into a conveyor to the desk of the order clerk in the workroom below. Being on Time. In one of the illustrations the order clerk's desk is shown, with its equip- ment. A conspicuous
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 12 The Florists^ Review January 23, Where the Work It Put Up in the Fleischman Store. nearly 100 feet long devoted to the making up of work and filling orders. A customer visits the store: The sales- man writes the order on the blank provided for that purpose; it is passed through the cashier's window, into the hands of the bookkeeping department and thence goes into a conveyor to the desk of the order clerk in the workroom below. Being on Time. In one of the illustrations the order clerk's desk is shown, with its equip- ment. A conspicuous feature is the plain-faced clock above the desk, which makes it inexcusable for any order to fail to receive attention on time. In this store it is appreciated that there is no more important detail in the flower business than being on the minute with deliveries. Down the left of the orderboard there is a* special division for rush orders, those on which some special hour of delivery is desig nated. This section is again subdi- vided into six divisions of the day, so that each order must come up in ample time for attention. The main order- board is divided according to destina- tions, so that the automobiles need make no unnecessary trips; in other words, so that all the orders for a given section will go out together. At the left of the order clerk 's desk is a cabinet of large, square divisions in which the completed parcels are assorted in the same manner as are the order sheets. Beyond this are locked cabinets where a large stock of ribbons is carried, the average inventory of this department being between $2,000 and $3,000, for this store is a large user of ribbons, chiffons and corsage acces- sories—the stems of corsage bunches are not wrapped with tinfoil in this establishment; ribbon is used instead. At the right of the order clerk's desk is a long, ziUc-covered work table, with stock tables between it and the big storage refrigerator. A large part of the basement is
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