Canadian grocer July-December 1908 . nted the mother; but youmust be very, very quiet. All right, said the youngster,well pretend we dont advertise. —Lippincotts. C. E. Irish, Front St. E., Toronto, isgoing into the manufacture of mince-meat for the trade. THE CANADIAN GROCER Window Dressing for the Holiday The Christmas Season Affords Splendid Opportunities for Developing This Feature of the Business—What Other GrocersHave Done to Attract Customers in Thjs Way—Window Displays in Western Ontario. Undoubtedly one of the most import-ant features that can be used by thegrocer to get the most out
Canadian grocer July-December 1908 . nted the mother; but youmust be very, very quiet. All right, said the youngster,well pretend we dont advertise. —Lippincotts. C. E. Irish, Front St. E., Toronto, isgoing into the manufacture of mince-meat for the trade. THE CANADIAN GROCER Window Dressing for the Holiday The Christmas Season Affords Splendid Opportunities for Developing This Feature of the Business—What Other GrocersHave Done to Attract Customers in Thjs Way—Window Displays in Western Ontario. Undoubtedly one of the most import-ant features that can be used by thegrocer to get the most out of the holi-day, or, for that matter, any other sea-son, is his store window. This is aboutthe first thing the people see in enteringor passing the store, and first impres-sions mean a very great deal. GROCERY WINDOWS IN WESTERNONTARIO. (By a Canadian Grocer RejMesentative.) A visit to a strange place usually effect of making a person very ob-servant of passing events—more so, per-haps, than it would do at home. To a. A Christmas Window Dressed by Geo. Rogers, 830 College Street, Toronto. that thing is the window display of thegrocery stores. Now, speaking in ageneral sense, go up and down the land,and having observed well, ask yourselfthe question : Do the grocers pay theattention to the dressing of windowsthat they should ? Do their windows atall compare with the dry goods man,the mens furn sher, the shoe man, thefurniture man, or the dozen and oneother tradesmen that might be mention-ed ? The answer is easy ; they do what is the reason ? It is not thatthey are lazy—that is far from thetruth, for grocers work, early and late ;their work is hard and their hours arelong—but because they do not need educating, as did all thetradesmen before-mentioned. The verygood window trimmer of to-day in allprobability made a mighty poor fist ofit virhen first he tried his skill at set-ting out goods in a window, but hekept on—kept getting better and b
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