PRICE OF ORANGES.
TO TITE editor.
I gir,—“Wholesale’s” reply to “Victim ” in your issue of yesterday jnay be accepted as reasonable, but my personal experience in a Princes street shop yesterday is worthy of note. Walking along, looking for some decent oranges, I entered a certain shop, which exhibited very nicelooking oranges ticketed at three for Is 5d with the intention of taking home half a dozen. Inside a lady was being served, and she, having purchased some eggs, asked for some of the oranges referred to. Tho salesman drew her attention to similar ones inside, mentioning “throe for Is 6d, madam,” whereon the lady customer replied: “These are marked at three for Is 3d in your window.” “Oh, no,” said the salesman, picking up two very inferior ones from off tho counter, “ these- are the ones we are selling at three for Is 3d”; and the lady replied- “I’ll just have the eggs.” Saying nothing, I walked out of the shop, mid later purchased my (.ranges n Chinaman, representing a class I would prefer not lu deal with. Is it any wo;. our European fruit shops are dwindling?— I arn, etc., Nox-Victui. July 20.
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Evening Star, Issue 18332, 20 July 1923, Page 2
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195PRICE OF ORANGES. Evening Star, Issue 18332, 20 July 1923, Page 2
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