Show return habit bostl costly y to parties Concer concerned med have you tin nn overgrown return ham or do you on the lie other hand liand dread as much ns as anyone the possibility of buying goods that some one else has token taken home tried ou on repeatedly and perhaps even worn vorn I 1 one on e out of every three articles sold in the average shop states it new york store etore manager to la returned for exchange 0 credit this practice he says results in a loss to tile the store re and the store generally and justifiably makes in nices up the loss by increase in the price of other articles such a system nieues means that the who the return habit roust must pay pa v for tile the usually merely indecisive sometimes unscrupulous nature of the womac woman who ls bs l s the custom of taking goods from tile the inores stores on approval grew up before emphasis m chuslo beina to bo be laid on oil sanitation and has been losing ground of 0 late most stores today refuse to take back articles for personal use such as comba and bruah vs and sometimes place labels in prominent places on wearing apparel refusing to permit penult their return when a missing label sig ulyles that the garment may inny have been worn born bv the customer the lubel libel it tevice grew out of the des desire treto to protect both shoppers and mer merchants chanth certain conscienceless persons persona who wore the borrowed garments on one or more occasions and then returned them to the store to be sold to an un co customer stomer this type of per kin ion induced some merchants to limit ahw in which goods might he be ex tilling changed ed or returned to a very few GIs a it Is calculated that in many stores the return practice renders about one third of tile the work of the delivery de absolute waste even con lve stores report about 20 per cent of their iner chandise returned F from rom fin an econ economic omle standpoint this state of affairs Is unprofitable both tr to nier cliant and ron consumer in ID waste effort and expense to the former and in increased price to the buyer |