| Show country storekeepers overworked obeying rules and regulations the buyers of merchandise today have no conception of what the storekeeper has to comply with in order to supply their needs take the case of a typical country store the people for miles around depend on that store for their dally daily necessities the storekeeper works throughout the day and then additional hours into the night keeping track of ration stamps and endless rules and regulations almost every move lie he makes is under threat of tine fine or jail sentence for a mistake thousands of stores are actually going out of business to the real hardship of many communities simply because the operators cannot stand the strain involved chairman patman of the th e house committee on small business has ordered an investigation into all phases of the issuance of orders and regulations by the 0 P A ile he says conditions are forced upon retailers and wholesalers which do not comply with the provisions of the emergency price control act it Is to be sincerely hoped that every effort will be made to lighten or simplify the present complication com tion surrounding retailing talling re not for the re taller alone but for the consumer who Is the worst sufferer as thousands of necessary stores are forced out ou t of business due to sheer physical inability to meet the complications of operation cratl era tion on in industrial dus trial news review |
