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Show IB When a retailer operates efficiently, the consumer feels it in prices, items in stock, and in the general environment of the store. A computer allows a retailer to spot varying trends immediately immedi-ately and be prepared to pull back one item and increase distribution in another. In short, a store can stock just what you want to buy. r: BACKGROUND Vt ON BUSINESS' Helping Our Retailers To Help To help push production up and keep prices down, businesses are installing small computers for a variety of production, accounting, and service functions. Users of small computers have a common com-mon interest in becoming more efficient, more competitive, com-petitive, more responsive to the changing needs of their marketplaces. With a small computer in operation, a retailer can know what items are selling and which ones aren't. It can have up-to-the-minute records on just what products and what quantities it has in inventories. invento-ries. And billing and accounts receivable are more accurate and complete. ' ; u Whether they're food distributors dis-tributors in Oklahoma, plastics plas-tics manufacturers in Illinois, or building supply dealers in Connecticut, they're using a small computer called the System3 marketed by IBM's General Systems Division. It's known as the office computer that can help a company grow. For information on profit-saving computer systems sys-tems you can write to IBM General Systems Division, co Information Dept., P.O. Box 2150, Atlanta, Ga. 30301. i |