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Show Courtesy a Business Asset. Courtesy is the life of trade. To be sure you most have the goods, but courtesy helps to sell them. A certain big establishment has a man whose chief business is to meet people and make them feel at home. lie has a pleasant post a shr.rt distance from the door and it's his bsiness to see every one that comes in. Re has a handshake and a smile for everybody. When people come in that do not seem to know where they want to go ho talks with them and learns their needs and sees that they get in touch with the proper clerks. The crowd buys there because It Is made to feel that the store is Interested in them. And they pay less for the goods, too, because be-cause they buy in such large quantity quanti-ty that the store can afford to sell at lower rates and still make money. That's the reason it sells more furniture, furni-ture, carpets and general furnishings than all the other stores combined in that town. Courtesy and service is tiia watchword and they find there's money La it Pennsylvania Grit. |