Canadian grocer July-September 1919 . thereis a very general condemnation, that is resultino- inGovernmental action in many countries that is aserious menace to many of these businesses. Un-questionably prices will be forced down, whetherthey have been warranted by conditions or not, forthe public is not in a mood to discriminate. Butwhile this appears evident, there is no present indi-cation that these declines will be sharp enough tocause any inconvenience to the retailer. They willbe gradual revisions that will mean in the end areturn to more normal price levels, but it will notbe a change
Canadian grocer July-September 1919 . thereis a very general condemnation, that is resultino- inGovernmental action in many countries that is aserious menace to many of these businesses. Un-questionably prices will be forced down, whetherthey have been warranted by conditions or not, forthe public is not in a mood to discriminate. Butwhile this appears evident, there is no present indi-cation that these declines will be sharp enough tocause any inconvenience to the retailer. They willbe gradual revisions that will mean in the end areturn to more normal price levels, but it will notbe a change of to-day or to-morrow, but a gradualchange of months and even years. This being truethe time for .speculative buying is past, but the mer-chant who buys for his reasonable needs is as safeto-day as he was at any period during the upwardcourse of prices. NEVER get so wrapped up in your own store, yourown methods and your own ideas as to lose sight ofchances for improvement. I dvertising Section CANADIAN GROCER 33 -& rf&TWf. This photo of the main entrance of the Cinadian National Exhibition gives some idea of the crowds that tlironged the ground* for the whole two weeks. CANADIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION GOES OVER MILLION THE Canadian National Exhibitionclosed this year the record year ofits history. Ever since 1913 theeffort has always been to once againreach the million mark, but during thewar years it has been impossible toequal the figures of the pre-war Peace Year Exhibition, however, notonly equalled the old figures, but faroutstripped them, and very nearlyreached the objective of a million and aquarter. It was a really unusual Exhibition inevery way. It was opened by His RoyalHighness the Prince of Wales amid ascene of enthusiasm that has never beenequalled in Toronto, and it carried on ina high tide of entimsiasm through thecourse of the two weeks, and it closedlast Saturday night with a grand totalof attendance of 1,201,500. There were many items of peculiarinter
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