Hardware merchandising September-December 1911 . ten house covered with ready roofing. To the right of the side entrance wasthe display of ranges, for which Neill & Sons hold the agency. An-other roofing company, whose goods areI ia ml led by this firm, also co-operatedwith them, and showed a cottage anilbarn covered with their products. The last four exhibits mentioned wereall in charge of experienced salesmensent down by. the manufacturers, andthey were of great assistance in explain-ing the important features of theirgoods. A Progressive Firm. James S. Neill & Sons have a reputa-tion
Hardware merchandising September-December 1911 . ten house covered with ready roofing. To the right of the side entrance wasthe display of ranges, for which Neill & Sons hold the agency. An-other roofing company, whose goods areI ia ml led by this firm, also co-operatedwith them, and showed a cottage anilbarn covered with their products. The last four exhibits mentioned wereall in charge of experienced salesmensent down by. the manufacturers, andthey were of great assistance in explain-ing the important features of theirgoods. A Progressive Firm. James S. Neill & Sons have a reputa-tion for taking up new ideas that lookgood. Their booths at the Frederictonexhibition were a sample of this pro-gressive spirit, and another instancewhich might be mentioned is the pur-chase of an automobile for the use oftheir representative, Jas. Pringle, whocovers the province. With a history ofsixty-five years behind the business, thereis no dearth of up-to-date ideas. Aview of their store on Queen Street,Fredericton, is given Hardware store of James S. Neill & Sons, Fredericton, HARDWARE AND METAL Safeguarding Prompt Delivery Mr. R. C. Chown, of Belleville, Introduces Simple SystemWhich Enables Him to Tell Exactly When Goods Were Soldto, and Received by, His Customers—Makes it Possible to FixResponsibility for Delays—Acts as Check Upon Customers asWell as Clerks. Send that in a hurry, please. Requests like this come to hardware-men daily. Sometimes a man drops in-to the store on ihis way to the office,and orders a hammer, tacks, a carpetbeater, a curtain pole, a pot of paint,or some other article wanted by hiswife. He has been asked by her to havethe goods sent home at once. So, likea dutiful husband, he makes the requestat the hardware store and goes cheer-fully off about his own work. Perhapshe thinks no more of the order until hegets home. Then, as he is reproachedby his wife for having forgotten herrequest, he becomes incensed at thehardwareman who ha
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