Show enormous waste in delivering Groceries in small quantities Two ago we had something to say about the grocers' trust in Salt Lake Quite a few grocers took exception to and one stopped his What we said in that article was true with regard to the smaller stores of this but it did not apply to some of the larger One or two of the large retail grocers have a retail ease or quantity that they will sell a case of condensed or any other canned goods as cheaply as the American Wholesale Grocery company or any else but the smaller concerns that only buy one or two cases at a stick close to the retail grocers' scheduled Too many groceries and the fear of losing a customer has brought on a condition here the same as elsewhere in the enormous expense of delivering many of the little stores have from two to three delivery while the larger ones almost keep a livery If the American Wholesale Grocery company succeeds it will do at least one good and that compel people to buy in with only one or two deliveries a Some good paying customers keep a grocer and his delivery boy on the jump all the for some women will go to the phone and order one pound of butter to be sent right up After the boy the same woman will discover that she is out of baking then she will phone that she wants one- of the smallest cans sent up at once then she will want a cake of laundry soap and so it will go all That woman may not buy a dollar's worth of goods in all the and yet she will keep a grocer hot and his delivery boy That is what makes a grocer turn gray and causes him tack on the big retail No grocer should deliver a bill of goods' unless it amounted to two dollars or and then only one delivery a On Sixth the other a woman ordered a cent yeast cake to be sent up at when she had three children playing in the any one of which was old enough to go after If the grocers' trust will pass rules that they will deliver only once a and not lessi than two dollars' worth at a they will not only benefit themselves but also their From 10 to 25 per cent is saved in buying groceries in A case of condensed 48 costs about at any big in buying one can at a time the case would cost or two at a 2 for 25 it would cost and it requires no more book keeping and but little more work to deliver the case than it does to tie up one can and deliver About 50 cents is saved in buying a sack of and from 50 cents to in buying by the From 6 to 10 per pound is saved in buying bacon and hams If the housewife will keep an account of the groceries she buys during the then go to her grocer and buy at one time the same amount for the she will save herself a lot of money and her grocer a bunch of The lumber dealers here have the best rule on and that is 25 whether it is one board of a wagon If the housewife had to pay 25 cents to get her groceries she would suddenly discover that it was not disgraceful to carry a pound of butter and that her children were too young or too old or too tired to run to the grocery sore for a quart of beans or a pound of Buying goods in little dribs and dabs and then having them delivered free is sheer an infernal nuisance and an enormous Hundreds of dollars are spent every day in Salt Lake for and besides the in doing up little snips of groceries that should be sold by the Should the large stores open up a full a whole ham and whole bacon and only deliver once a week or once a aiS charge the quantity will find that most of the will take to and all save money and Jt There are too many small griS cers in Salt and they to get the highest exorbitant to live with the full age many of the concerns would have to go out of There is but little doubt that the Wholesale dealers of Salt are either overcharging or are being overcharged by the big meat combine on smoked The following is Salt wholesale W Smoked S per lb per lb fancy per 34 And we give herewith the of smoked meats in taken from the Daily Ledger of October 1910 Hams Boiled At mour's Shield Carsten's Armour's f Bacon Armour's Shield Star h Carsten's 21 1 English D. S. B ton We wish to state right that if we make any statement in these and tides that are not true or we will thank one who will correct It celiac shows a better spirit a person to correct us than to j come stop the not properly inform he people J V. S. |