[PDF] Competition And Combination In The Wholesale Grocery Trade In Philadelphia eBook

Author : William Lewis Abbott
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,48 MB
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781333238292

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Excerpt from Competition and Combination in the Wholesale Grocery Trade in Philadelphia These developments, of course, mean a curtailment of the business passing thru the hands of the Wholesalers. One Of'l these is the growth of the chain store systems. These systems, operating a number Of small retail stores in one community, buy in large quantities from the manufacturers, and operate their own wholesale warehouses. In 1917, there were five such systems operating in Philadelphia, The Acme Tea Company, Childs Grocery Company, Bell and Company, the George M. Dunlap Company, and Robinson and Crawford. In that year, these five companies were merged into one system, the American Stores Company. This combined company has a capital of It operates about six hundred stores in Philadelphia, and about an equal number outside the city. It does a business of about a year, none of which goes thru the hands of the wholesalers. A few months after this merger was announced, another chain system entered the city, The Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : William Lewis Abbott
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 25,65 MB
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780530553610

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Author : William Lewis Abbott
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 21,23 MB
Release : 2016-05-16
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ISBN : 9781356732241

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Susan V. Spellman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 30,50 MB
Release : 2016-03-15
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ISBN : 0199384290

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In popular stereotypes, local grocers were avuncular men who spent their days in pickle-barrel conversations and checkers games; they were backward small-town merchants resistant to modernizing impulses. Cornering the Market challenges these conventions to demonstrate that nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century grocers were important but unsung innovators of business models and retail technologies that fostered the rise of contemporary retailing. Small grocery owners revolutionized business practices from the bottom by becoming the first retailers to own and operate cash registers, develop new distribution paths, and engage in transforming the grocery trade from local enterprises to a nationwide industry. Drawing on storekeepers' diaries, business ledgers and documents, and the letters of merchants, wholesalers, traveling men, and consumers, Susan V. Spellman details the remarkable achievements of American small businessmen, and their major contributions to the making of "modern" enterprise in the United States. The development of mass production, distribution, and marketing, the growth of regional and national markets, and the introduction of new organizational and business methods fundamentally changed the structures of American capitalism. Within the walls of their stores, proprietors confronted these changes by crafting solutions centered on notions of efficiency, scale, and price control. Without abandoning local ties, they turned social concepts of community into commercial profitability. It was a powerful combination that businesses from chain stores to Walmart continue to exploit today.