Hardware merchandising September-December 1919 . larlyare apt to keep away from shops wherethey have to step around piles of mer-chandise and they will not handle goodsthat are not kept clean. It doesnt mat-ter whether it is a display of bath tubs,bath-room fixtures, electric washers,stoves or anything else, it is good busi-ness to keep it out where people cansee and inspect it and keep it clean andnice. Cuts Down Overhead We soon found that handling otherlines than plumbing goods not onlybrought a lot of people to our shop forboth the other lines and plumbing goods,but the steadily increasing
Hardware merchandising September-December 1919 . larlyare apt to keep away from shops wherethey have to step around piles of mer-chandise and they will not handle goodsthat are not kept clean. It doesnt mat-ter whether it is a display of bath tubs,bath-room fixtures, electric washers,stoves or anything else, it is good busi-ness to keep it out where people cansee and inspect it and keep it clean andnice. Cuts Down Overhead We soon found that handling otherlines than plumbing goods not onlybrought a lot of people to our shop forboth the other lines and plumbing goods,but the steadily increasing turnovermade for more profits and at the sametime cut down our overhead. We coulddo many times the business we hadbeen doing when we only sold plumbinggoods, and with litle increase in ex-pense. We have been adding one lineafter another and at the present timewould go into the handling of electricalfixtures if we could find a man to takecharge of the work upon whom we couldthoroughly depend. Take All Discounts Mr. Brittain pointed out that the. This model laundry, locatedat the rear of the store isproving a big business get-ter for Bloom and Brittainand is a centre of real inter-est for housewives who areinterested in getting away from the drudgery of wash-ing. The equipment is allconnected up and can bedemonstrated instantly. 42 HARDWARE AND METAL November 22, 1919
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