A BUSINESS PRACTICE.

Evening Star, Issue 21090, 30 April 1932, Page 17

A BUSINESS PRACTICE.

TO ms EDITOR. Sir,—l desiro to bring to the notice of the general public the tactics of an Australian syndicate which has for tho last week or so been striking terror into the shop assistants of this town. It says very little for some of the big firms here that they have given these strangers the job of spying on employees. Of course, there may he a little petty thieving going on in the shops, hut the methods tho members of this syndicate have adopted are to do their best to trap, by pleading and telling tales of poverty, and so leading a shop assistant to take pity and perhaps give a little extra on to their purchase. I know one shop assistant who was nearly driven crazy with these people. They made no less than fifty purchases in the hope of trapping him, but even with this he was right to the penny. I think Dunedin could well do without these American methods. I, for one, intend to give my patronage to those firms who have thought enough of their employees to have nothing to do with any imported syndicate.—l am, etc., Employer op Labour. April 30.