THE WAR TIME SPIRIT
Hero are some things direrent businesses could do to help pay war taxes- - or buy war bonds: — Watoh. for needjess words in fielograins and for unnecessary telegrams. Make the hour 3of \ work half an hour earlier to cub down the light bill. Ask customers to co-operatic in saving the time of salespeople, and carry homo small packages. Chit down the number cf daily deliveries.
Guard against waste in wrapping and packing. Some of the economies are large and some small, some hard to bring about and some easy. "Before the war," sa:d the head of a large London store, -"-we Had no conception of how to wring' profits out of our business." And he went on to mention a list of iaviogs—some of tihem as small as tying packages in a way that would require less string, and nearly ail of them applicable in at Ipapt some degree to other lines—wnwh iii the aggregate have madie an enormous difference in the store's usefulness to customers as well as in its own net, profits.
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Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13658, 28 March 1918, Page 4
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177THE WAR TIME SPIRIT Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13658, 28 March 1918, Page 4
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