Electrical news and engineering . low comes into your store on a Sat-urday night looking for a battery for his flashlight. Youhand him the liattery and when he slips it into the case itdoesnt light up right off the ibat. He then expects ycm tostand and make whatever little adjustments are necessary,while a number of other customers are waiting to be would you handle a situation like that? .Answer: We are all up against propositions like our case, for instance, the largest crowd of the day mayhappen to gather in the store around noon time, when 50per cent of our staff are out
Electrical news and engineering . low comes into your store on a Sat-urday night looking for a battery for his flashlight. Youhand him the liattery and when he slips it into the case itdoesnt light up right off the ibat. He then expects ycm tostand and make whatever little adjustments are necessary,while a number of other customers are waiting to be would you handle a situation like that? .Answer: We are all up against propositions like our case, for instance, the largest crowd of the day mayhappen to gather in the store around noon time, when 50per cent of our staff are out having luncheon. And whenfellows come in like that at the last minute of the twelfthhour on Saturday night, you simply cant give all the servicethat is demanded. The best you can do is to try and avoidnftcnding anyone and wait on three customers at once. Fixed Prices? Question: .\re there fixed prices in the jewelery busi-ness, and if .so what is the percentage of profit? .Answer: .At present. Mr. kaney, the attornev-gencral, is. very large subject advocating the abolition of fixed prices, while the executiveof our association is going on record as approving of fixed|)rices. We have appealed to Mr. Raney by letter, and atthe same time we are going to make a personal appeal. Atour last executive meeting, the matter came up of a store inwhich Big Bens were being sold at half price. Letterswere read from a number of manufacturers in competinglines and retailers, who had communicated with the BigBen people and had been unable to get any contention is. on the manufacturers part, that if hefixes prices it will interfere witli the volume of business hecan do. Druggests, hardware merchants and others, arehandling such lines as Big Bens merely as a bait to getpeople into their premises and without figuring any profiton them. .Again, the wholesalers in many instances areagainst the fixed price. One large wholesaler stated recentlythat his overhead had increased to such
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