BREAD

Evening Star, Issue 25768, 15 April 1946, Page 7

BREAD

TO THE EDITOR Sir, —The only thing on which I can commend "All Humbug" is his nom de plume. He says I am wide of the mark when I say the grocers are, to blame for the non-delivery of bread by the bakers—a •■statement that every baker agrees with. Then 'he goes on to lament that _ if the _ bakers start delivery at a higher price the grocer will have'more bread to handle; also, the bakers have not treated the trade right in regard to price to compensate it for its wofk. T, too, have a suburban store, and my baker tells me I am his biggest customer, roughlv handling 240 loaves a week, and I look at bread .sales as a child looks on its money box. The bread is placed on shelves by the

baker; I count it and pay for it, and that is all I do. The people come and take what they want and pay for it, so 1 want to ask " All Humbug " if he has a "line in his shop more profitable than that. If so. I have yet to find it. His trouble is that he takes orders for the bread and "gets it in the neck.'" as he calls it. To me it is all bread, and as long as it lies on the shelves it is for sale. Personally, I don't care if tho bakers never deliver, but it is the grocers that are withholding house-to-house deliveries, and not the bakers, ns our doors are open to receive his goods, and why blame him? —I am. etc., April 13. No Humbug.