GOOD TIMES GONE.
FOR COMMERCIAL MEN. CHAIN STORES BUYING. TRAVELLER GIVES lIIS VIEWS. “Before the war it was easy to get orders and to make profits,” said Mr. 11. 11. Wauchop, speaking at the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Canterbury Commercial Travellers’ and Warehousemen’s Association recently.
“During the war fmd in the period that followed we had the wood on the buyers,” he added; but he said that in recent years, with combined buying by chain stores and direct importation by retailers, the buyers “had the wood on” the travellers, and he felt sympathy with the younger members of the association who had not experienced the good times of former years.
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20419, 22 September 1938, Page 3
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