Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-02-18 | Page 12 | Money at Work

CR s 1 RUNNING A AIs AU BUSINESS U IS EXPENSIVE P N z Running a retail business is ex ex- pensive The merchant who takes your dollar when you rou make male a a. purchase must use some considerable portion of that dollar for rife me actual costs of operating operating- his shop apart from the cost of ot the article you buy and the profit which he must make Out of each purchasing dollar must come something to pa pay the clerk cIeri to help with the rent of the building to cover the costs of advertisIng advertising advertising ad ad- and to pay for the paper or container in which your parcel is wrapped Costs Coots of delivery and many other items are also included Out of every dollar spent in a a. grocery about eighteen cents go for these purposes In a shoe store the Sigure Is twenty eight cents while whiles s Jewelry stores have a high operatIng operating operating ing cost oost with a forty-cent forty figure Meat l Is sold at a cost of about twenty cents on the dollar and a amen's amens amens amen's amens amen's mens men's clothing business is conducted at about the same expense Drugs are a little more moie expensive to retail figures for this t type pe of business showing that of every dollar twenty- twenty eight cents go for operating costs Copyright 1926 Associated Edl- Edl tors ors Inc r