DEARER GROCERIES
Wholesale grocery houses are reported as having good turnovers at present, but the prices of many lines continue to bo advanced and will have to be passed on to the retail customer, if they have not already been passed on. A continued improvement in trade is expected to be maintained next week .when first-of-the-month tobacco deliveries will be made. Increasing costs are being reflected by further advances in prices, several increases being reported this week, one line of cocoa being advanced 3d per lb. Advances are also reported in all packs of jam, raspberry and black currant being advanced Id per lb, while the price of apricot is firmer by 3d per lb and all other grades are Jd per lb higher than prices previously ruling. Canned fruit prices are expected to go higher. Increases are reported ;n tomato sauce which has advanced Is per dozen in the case of quarts and 6d per dozen on pints in some packs. A firm of meat packers has advised an increase of Is per dozen in the price of their meats.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1937, Page 10
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181DEARER GROCERIES Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1937, Page 10
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