Systematic Shopping!
An Englishwoman who is now making her home in New York writes a diverting account of the latest form of dress shop, where all overhead charges arc cut down to a minimum, and even the salesgirl is dispensed with, says a Londoner. Clothes are there sold on a system which might almost bo called automatic. It is a vast emporium in which clothes are displayed on racks, graded according to size and style. The prospective buyer finds the rack holding her size and the kind of clothing, she desires, picks out what she likes, and Jbears it off, seeking a large curtained
recess in ■which she can try it on. This recess may or may not bo already jammed full of women and girls engaged in the samo pastime. If she survives this ordeal and decides to buy, she inarches up to a cash desk and pays the price marked on the tag of the article she has chosen. All around, perched on high stools, arc watchers —women whose job it is to see that nothing is stolen. Signs in five languages warn that ',<OUl' detectives are constantly on the watch. When caught it is too late to payl" And presumably little escapes the eye of those brooding sybils. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 47, 23 August 1930, Page 19
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211Systematic Shopping! Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 47, 23 August 1930, Page 19
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