Canadian grocer January-March 1919 . keeping prices up. The grocery trade in 1919 shouidshow a decided improvement in fancylines over the last two or three yearsbecause stock in their hands must belower than at any time known to the pre-sent generation. The public generally will likely buyeven a larger quantity of food in 1919than in the two previous years becausethere has been a good deal of real thriftin a great many quarters, although per-haps it was not apparent. We certainly expect and hope thatour trade will ibe very much larger, andthis should apply to many importingfirms whose supplies
Canadian grocer January-March 1919 . keeping prices up. The grocery trade in 1919 shouidshow a decided improvement in fancylines over the last two or three yearsbecause stock in their hands must belower than at any time known to the pre-sent generation. The public generally will likely buyeven a larger quantity of food in 1919than in the two previous years becausethere has been a good deal of real thriftin a great many quarters, although per-haps it was not apparent. We certainly expect and hope thatour trade will ibe very much larger, andthis should apply to many importingfirms whose supplies were cut down forvarying reasons, and in many instancesentirely stopped. Cannot Foresee Lower Prices Yet We cannot see how the price of thelines we handle can be lowered for quitea period. The acute shortage of rawmaterial, tins, wood, and, not the leastimportant, labor, for the manufactureand packing has extended for so long aperiod on an increasing scale that thependulum will take a long time even tobegin swinging the other We think the CANADIAN GROCERcan help a lot in editorials, or otherwise,in bringing before the Canadian Govern-ment the actual necessity of modifying,or even altogether removing, the manyannoying restrictions placed in the wayof importers, such as the need oflicenses to import almost every articleof food, when the War Trade Board atWashington has already seen fit to re-lease, from December 16, nearly everyline of foodstuffs generally brought infrom the United States. It is true that licenses are much morefreely granted than formerly, but aslong as they are to be granted why putthe importer to the trouble and incon-venience of getting them? Not in a Position to Export Stewart Menzies & Co., in reportingon the situation, state: It is somewhat difficult at the presentstage to give any definite or adequatereview of the situation as it affects theexporters in Great Britain and the Con-tinent of Europe. They are not and willnot, for a considerable time, be
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