. Hardware merchandising (January-March 1908) . might be multi-plied at great length for the movementlias spread all through the West; butthese will serve the purposes of illus-tration. There is no doubt that one re-sult of the financial stringency of thelast few months will be to place the re-tail business of Western Canada per-manently on a sounder and more satis-factory basis. Two Years Experience at Regina W. K. Mclnnis Describes the Cash System Adopted by the Regina Trading 1906—Customers Pay Accounts in Advance. Would it be advisable for me toadopt the cash system? is a questionwhi
. Hardware merchandising (January-March 1908) . might be multi-plied at great length for the movementlias spread all through the West; butthese will serve the purposes of illus-tration. There is no doubt that one re-sult of the financial stringency of thelast few months will be to place the re-tail business of Western Canada per-manently on a sounder and more satis-factory basis. Two Years Experience at Regina W. K. Mclnnis Describes the Cash System Adopted by the Regina Trading 1906—Customers Pay Accounts in Advance. Would it be advisable for me toadopt the cash system? is a questionwhich at some time or other confrontsevery merchant, especially in WesternCanada, and the merits of the businessrun on a cash basis, as compared withthose of the business done on the creditsystem, are constantly under many the question never seemssettled, as there are advantages to becited in either system. But so far asone of the leading mercantile estab-lishments of Regina is concerned, thequestion is settled once and for all. The. J. F. BOLE, Regina Trading Company. store referred to had reduced the cashsystem to a science, and to-day the rich-est man in Canada could not securegoods there without the cash. How thesystem is worked out is, of course, theinteresting point, and one which willbear explanation here. At the outset, it may be stated thatthe store referred to, the Regina Trad-ing Company, Limited, does the largestbusiness of any store, not only in Re-gina, but in the Province of Saskatche-wan. Its trade, by means of the mailorder system, had been spread through-out the length and breadth of this Pro-vince, and in Regina the store carriesa stock that can only be duplicated atWinnipeg, Toronto, or other large reason for all this is found in thecash system which was introduced twoyears ago. • 91 With the commencement of 1908, theRegina Trading Company entered thethird year of business under the cashsystem, and the manager sums up hi
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