HIGHER BREAD PRICE
Many Deliveries Cancelled VENDOR'S PREDICAMENT PA CHRISTCHURCH, May 10. Because the increased cost of bread has persuaded many housewives to cancel their deliveries and buy bread over the counter instead, at least one Christchurch bread vendor will have to go out of business within a few weeks. Yesterday he lost 40 customers and 20 on Monday, dropping his orders from 150 large loaves a day to 90, and he expected further cancellations today. The baker from whom this vendor obtains his bread baked 150 fewer loaves last night than he normally did before the increase in price. As he sells his whole output to half a dozen vendors, and does not supply any shops, the loss in trade is also serious to him. The vendors whom he supplies are all returned servicemen who put £IOOO, including their war gratuities, into their businesses.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27386, 11 May 1950, Page 8
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