Show HOT FiT c PRICE WAR AJAR o t AMONG GROCERS Jobbers Selling Goods in Many Instances Below Cost f STORMS RETARD BUSINESS I RAIN a HELPS mI s AB BUT HURTS THE TRE TRADE i iI I Grocery jobbers are engaged In iio a bit bitter lt ter war Avar Wholesale Wl lestle mer mercha merchants h N t in lit both Salt Lake and a Ogden are cutting prices until in i in many instances goods are are be being lug iDS sold below belo beJo cost The trouble dat da hack beck about a couple ou of months m The Jobbers association 1 was wan Wa kept up ut for Of some om in time th f dation da ft of the organization or an agreement to maintain prices 3 certain certain tain staples and to limit the rm of or orere credits ere Then it became came bruited about that certain Jobbers were cutting under the tha agreed prices Sans S Sot of ot Ogden Og served notice of withdrawal wit dr t a association That T at organization don tion thereupon broke up Since Ince then there has been all manner mner m n of sf trouble The Salt lt Lake and jobbers rs began shading prices Than 1 Ii credits were extended e ten ed became b more and a more severe e eN Now N the situation has become so O acute that retail grocers throughout the entire ft region eun an n buy uy i goods at unusually un uny low prices and Pd I t ninety days credit is being frequently I given and oren even Il n this thi in some borne instances has be Men been n tended extended Some grades gr es of to tobacco i bacco bucco for J example are being sold by y I jobbers below cost ost Other goods are re nV ine at t actual cast OOSt C St while others oth rs are being be g disposed d of f at such hal a narrow na w I margin n that tha t the there e is really no iw profit Pro fit in inThe them t The result has been that retailers I throughout th Utah Idaho western Wyo Wyoming ming and Colorado and parts of I Mon Men tane and aDd Nevada are laying in unusually unusually ally heavy stocks Some of them are areld t said ld to be heavily hevly overstocked The feeling ia le high hig and business principles have been overstepped Men in close touch with the situation say that it will wm become worse and worse until the th Jobbers are forced to get bet together again and reorganize the association under undera a new agreement |