PRICE OF FOOD
EETAIL DISTRIBUTION
HIGH COST OF DELIVERY
LONDON, January 29. The "Daily Herald" says that the Markets Supply Committee has been quietly collecting facts regarding tho pi-ico of food which may revolutionise retail distribution. It has discovered that food can bo 25 per cent, cheaper if sold from depots without delivery at customers'' houses. Moreover, when prices of most foodstuffs are reduced the quantity consumed rises out of all proportion'to the fall in price. " Investigators are now inquiring if housewives who arc- willing, to taka thoir purchases homo uiust be charged the same price as those for whom tho retailer maintains an expensive delivery; service
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Evening Post, Issue 25, 30 January 1935, Page 11
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107PRICE OF FOOD Evening Post, Issue 25, 30 January 1935, Page 11
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