PRICE WAR IN DUNEDIN
SMALL SHOPKEEPERS CO-OPERATE IN BUYING
For some time past there has been marked competition in the grocery business, particularly as the result of the invasion into the trade hero of a company from the north, whose prices over the counter for many lines are below the wholesale rate which the average storekeeper has to pay. This has led to price-cutting all round, the effect of this being disastrous to many small shops. A coniitcr-movo has now been made by a number of stores in the city, suburbs, and country districts, twenty of these having combined as a buying group to enable them to compete more successfully with their larger competitors. A circular which has been sent to the public sets out that the stores are constituting a strictly buy ing group, their orders when pooled being the largest in the trade. The buying public will no doubt watch further developments with much interest.
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Evening Star, Issue 20720, 17 February 1931, Page 12
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157PRICE WAR IN DUNEDIN Evening Star, Issue 20720, 17 February 1931, Page 12
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