. Hardware merchandising August-October 1912. rderplaced for some white paint, for I findthis about the only way to prevent thestock running very near the dangermark. According to the statement of thisman he has never run out of a line sincehe adopted this system. Its operation50 rs simple in the extreme. It has a greatmany good points, making necessary acareful arrangement of the paint, and which tends to bring a quckturn over, and to prevent cans beingshoved back where the labels becomedirty and torn so that the particular potis hard to sell. True, the system re-quires a little
. Hardware merchandising August-October 1912. rderplaced for some white paint, for I findthis about the only way to prevent thestock running very near the dangermark. According to the statement of thisman he has never run out of a line sincehe adopted this system. Its operation50 rs simple in the extreme. It has a greatmany good points, making necessary acareful arrangement of the paint, and which tends to bring a quckturn over, and to prevent cans beingshoved back where the labels becomedirty and torn so that the particular potis hard to sell. True, the system re-quires a little of the managers half an hour or an hour a week isnot too much for him to give to this de-partment. The increased profits willyield him a good return for his time, andthe fact that it will not be necessary tosay, We are out of that line, will bea great thing for his. general will not go away disgruntled,as did the young man who gave up hisplace in a street car to get a can ofpaint which, he discovered was The following items are taken fromSept. 24, 1892 issue of Hardware andMetal :— A. Hobbs, hardware merchant,Tilsonburg, Ont., was married lastweek to Miss Elsie Hilliman. * # * The cholera scare has its effectupon certain lines handled by thehardware merchant. Fall shipmentsof glass should have begun to arriveabout a fortnight ago and the firstof them would have reached thismarket about the middle of themonth but for quarantine deten-tion. The Wandrahm, which hasbeen lying off Montreal for above aweek, has a large quantity of German glass on board. • • • A novelty in the shape of a window dresser called the PerpetualMotion Exhibitor has been de-vised. It consists of an arrange-ment whereby the shelves are carriedsteadily and slowly up and down thewindows, thus bringing everythingprominently into Note.—The motion device hasbecome popular since then and manyclever ideas have been evolved to showhardware goods in motion.
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