Show shopping at home Moab merchants are going all out to make mako Spring Bargain Days a big success They are offering every shopper bargains that are actual real and worthwhile In one participating store or another you will wilt be able to find practically anything you might need at a sale price This Friday and Saturday tho the sh shopper will wilt go into these stores expecting and receiving merchandise at low tow prices r r t While White Bargain Days mean sale sate prices offered only Int Intermittently and at special times the shopper might find it to his hIs' advantage to make an honest appraisal of regular or every day prices offered by Moab merchants To o some at least this hon honest st appraisal would be revealing revealing revealing re re- and certainly not in keeping with the fallacious belief belie that it is cheaper to shop elsewhere Recently we wo had an occasion to examine prices on ona ona ona a long list of grocery store items as they were being of- of leading super markets of Salt Lake City and of comparing these prices with those being offered in Moab Where an Item or two was found to be bo a cent or two less lesson lesson lesson on the Salt Lake list as many items were lower in do the Moab stores A comparison of totals of Moab and Salt Lake prices found them to be practically the same Mme A man in the hardware business in Illinois recently visiting in Moab compared prices he offered with those found in Moab for like articles The TIle Moab prices were t as low as Illinois in-Illinois many Instances s Jower lower I These are arc but two ready comparisons Without question ques ques- r ti tion n prices of most ost other merchandise are arc a as reasonable in Moab as elsewhere We Wo are arc of course urging that people shop at dot home We believe that in general it is as economically advantageous advantageous advantageous to the shopper as ns going out of town to make their purchases These are other reasons why we urge this Business establishments if not the life Ufe line Unc are certainly import import- important ant arteries of any community r They are needed by the townspeople just as vitally as they might need the patronage patronage patronage pat pat- of the bite residents They rhey provide services employment employment employment employ employ- ment and and to o a large measure are the physical symbols of a towns town's success Surely the prospective tive newcomer I is affected favorably or adversely by the aire giro of the towns town's business A tourist measures every community he enters largely by its business establishments In both instances these people are impressed by the apparent success of business establishments when a merchant is achieving this success which is possible only through patronage of the community residents These people who have newly settled in a community or who have just stopped stopped stop stop- ped as tourists tourist l are arc Its best advertisers of affected favorably favorably favorably favor favor- ably or if not they can be rightfully injurious critics We believe business establishments in Moab are putting putting putting put put- ting forth every effort both as regards prices and merchandise mer mer- chandise quality to meet the needs of Moab s shoppers and that their is more than just for personal profits and successes They have a sincere desire to help make Moab a successful community We Wo believe beHove too that the tho residents should do their share sharo in this respect Since in the long run Moab people can buy as economically econ econ- economically as they can elsewhere they should shop at home |