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Show The Enterprise Review . June 30, 1976 Page 6b New Colletts Store Capitalizes on Southbound P opulation KEEP IT MOVING! If you want to keep your business moving, the Review can help. If youre running a business, you cant afford to be uninformed. The more familiar you are with your total business environment, the better able you'll be to take advantage of its opportunities. Because the Review is a specialized publication, we can provide our readers with the most complete, accurate, and diverse reports about the Utah business scene. Growth centers, sales tips, retailing information, advertising analyses, real estate, finance, investment opportunities, industrv trends, legislation, management problems (and solutions) and more. Its all in the Utah Enterprise Review each week. Utah business is on the move. Move with it. SUBSCRIBE TODAY (you really canH afford jiottoMi the Utah Yes, please send me ' Enterprise Review. Enclosed is an $24.00 check to cover my one-yesubscription. P.O. Box 11778, Salt Lake City, Utah 84147. ar Name Collett's Furniture store has expanded its product line and entered a broader market with the establishment of its new store at 7200 South State. Opened June 18, the new location boasts 60,000 square feet of showroom space, all on It is Collett's one level. second store in Utah. This is the most elaborate furniture store in Salt Lake, said manager Dan Angus. He said it differs from Collett's original warehouse concept. "We give the customer the benefit of seeing furniture in individual room groups, He expalined Angus said. sofas are combined with bedroom and dining room sets when they are of the same style. Ferris Collett, store owner, said the new store allows Colletts to "show a bigger line of merchandise with a wider spread on price. "Rather than enlarge our present store, we decidecl to build on the south end of That part of town is growing more rapidly, and it allows us to enlarge our Angus said half the furniture is of better quality than that on display in Colletts original warehouse store. "Nowr we can compete with the other large furniture stores in town, Angus said. Collett's chose the 7200 South location because of "the density of the population and the growth pattern in the He valley," Angus said. added management wanted to make the store available to Utah County customers. The new store has been on the drawing boards for about two years, he said. It was designed by Ray Anderson of Dallas, Texas, and Don Johnson Design Development It was of Bountiful, Utah. built by Riddco Construction of Salt Lake. town. advertising base, Collett said. Collett's new store on 7200 South State offers a wider variety of merchandise. Scanning Systems Gain Slow Acceptance in Food Stores Company Name. Address .State. Within the next year Harmons expects to have changed over to the new speed-scannsystem at its er counters, according to a store manager. check-ou- t The check-ou- t system currently in use at Harmons is adaptable to the scanning equipment. The store began phasing in the new system a year ago. "The first phase was to train cashiers to use the new That took two registers. weeks, the manager said. the system to expand it, said vice president John Carley. He said the system is about three times as expensive as the regular cash register. We will need savings in productivity or inventory information to justify its use, he said. "We are considering its use because coding is an advantage, and we are faced During the second with competitive pressures. phase, which we are in right We try to stay abreast of whats happening, he added. now, wfe are coding the proHe said the Boise store is duce. 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