"CASH AND CARRY"

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1689, 21 November 1925, Page 2

"CASH AND CARRY"

HELP YOURSELF.

• A new form of trading with the public has made its appearance in Sydney, 'during the last few months. This is known as the "cash and carry" system, a name derived from the simple fact that the purchaser pays his money and carries away his own goods after selecting them from the stock. In one large store the system | has heen applied to groceries, and as ' the result of economies the system 1 effects the public are. getting their groceries there slightly cheaper than anywhere else. The new system simply provides a large store well filled with groceries, entry to which is by a narrow passage, safeguarded- by a turnstile. The housewife bent- >on stocking up enters the place, takes things from this or that shelf or table and having selected all the goods she needs, makes her way to the turnstile exit, Avhere a smart girl assistant sorts out what she has bought, tots the amount up, and calls the total to the cashier alongside, where the amount is paid and the customer passes out with her goods. The advantage of the system as far as the firm is concerned is that it does away with all delivery troubles and the cost thereof, and instead of there being 20 or 30 assistants to serve people, the people serve themselves, and only now and again an assistant is seen building up the stocks as xney become depleted.

The system is also applied to tea and refreshments rooms in one of,the large drapery establishments, where the cakes, scones and sandwiches are set out along a large table-counter, and the customer, taking up a plate, places upon it whatever is required. At the end of the counter cups of tea and cocoa or cool drinks may be obtained, and having paid for these one repairs to one of the tables to consume them. It is all very simple and saves a lot of money in attendance, for an army of girls would be required to do the work that is managed by a mere half dozen.