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Show piwiiir ; METHODS WIN i;- (jkojmik i;kixk ; Success is ontircly ,fi milter of Jic.r;il f i ! The ..piiurtunity for ::cliic-(.nicnt is .utoiiut today than , vcr before." When c.skeil to comment on the eel,. luatioii of the iwenty-fil'Ih an-1 an-1 niversary of the founding of the original .1. T. iVitney slore. Mr. l'enney made tins remark. 1'pon his firm belief in the truth of it rests the foundation of the system of de-ll-artmout stores, bearin;; Ids name. I which now cover the entire country. These stores are not chain store.-, in tin. ordinary acec'iitance of the !;:-.ine. , They a.re n closely kui.t -.roup of individual community stores, .contributing to the welfare of the community in the same nian-jiier nian-jiier as other local stores but with 1 1 u added advantage afforded by co-lopernlion co-lopernlion with other l'enny stores. I They have all been developed on Ithe theory and practice of partner-sliip. partner-sliip. They have all contributed in (a purely local manner to the development devel-opment of the towns where they are located . The strength of the group has been used to serve the welfare of the local community. The original J. C. renney store was founded in Kemmerer. Wyomin.',', on April 14th. 11)02. Today there are 773 J. (.'. Tenney stores ami phnis are already under way to increase this number to more than S0 before- the close of this year. In 11MI2-, the "mother stove i Kemmerer (lid a business of !?.; S'JSII. At the close of V.Y2 the do stores operating at that time did a total of $115.0t2,7:JT in sales for the year. . . , The sr.lin which was the original investment of .J. ('. l'enney in the little store lit Kemmerer was turned better than 2:i0.iot) times last year. The original Solid invesled m the |
