TRADE METHODS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1473, 28 June 1912, Page 2

TRADE METHODS.

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any common Wiulpi'siandingibetween your,firm ami the. . : nit>i:el!ants 'rcicprtain' discounts?— JNp. . .■ ■VAVoMiaveSlctters-ihcro sayiiiK that you:, ; fefuec(lftto:'isiip])lj-.a*certain ■;firm;.with getting-them now at ;'l-li(r' , - i amc , ? , i)ricesV-a!!? elsewhere... »\\e. wore asked :to.f'.supply- at,, the. fame pnee for 'fwpt.yeni'CilJiiti'ifH'tlie■,pvico,;..wovit down .fliftiflvra; iiv; fjii'cstion, was .to : gc^tho..lieue'■?a^GSw^l^a<liey;:Tf'tiiC'i«(aiicr.were -bar. below cqs.t^.thii'tJ-.ivould-ruiivyyoHr-.trade?- ios, itlK'grpciirsfiroiild-'.notlisellf.oiiiv jjoods on 'tii6se'*'teriosi i; KOne:-man;■ would. undercut ;ari(ftothei : siwmild draprllirA line-out Vu-•Jessi;:.t.lie:,puWic-:a).sohitelyi demanded tho ''•'opdV'-'Ri'Wer.s'.would , not- seop- them, tnilriyo;other grocers out, «nri(t.tl)cy-- , .wbul(l-*not».wnnt!the;lmo from ijisiv'ahdlSiiirOtrade.-.wpuldiSHUcr.; , -;? , ,- , ;.-.-? . ■