Show I FOOD INDUSTRY TROUBLES SEEN Too Many Grocery Stores Declares Speaker to Retailers OMAHA Neb Neb- Juno June 23 By By ByThe The Associated Press Press The The food industry today Is tick sick it Is suffering from a series aeries of ot complications Is and This was vas the declaration Wed Wed- Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday of F. F 1 J. J J Nichols Nichola of ot the tho Na Na- National National National Register company Dayton Daylon Ohio before the National l' l Whole Whole- Wholesale Wholesale sale and Retail Grocers' Grocers associations associations in joint session here Mr Nichols asserted that In the tho entire system of ot modern food tood dis dis- distribution distribution distribution through farmer manu manu- manufacturer manufacturer wholesaler and retailer only the tho manufacturer is 18 making money he said Is the thing wrong generally with American Ameri Ameri- American American can business today and means that merchants are aro trying to sell more than ever before not realizing that tho the more they sell the less their profits proms will wm be beThere There is a a. grocery store for I every five fhe families in the country today he asserted too many We need fewer but better stores the speaker as asserted as- as asserted Is fear tear of the chain store Asking the grocers s why hy Individual merchants should fear tho the chain store when they the merchant control 85 per cent of tho the publics public's spending dollar he admonished them to stop fighting righting among your your- yourselves yourselves yourselves selves face tho the competition and you will hold your own Ho de de- declared declared declared grocers would lose their ef of- the tho store were cre to disappear and added that the tho chain storo atoro is the tho biggest blessing you ou could have It has made you clean cleanup cleanup cleanup up and wake up Asserting the average overage retailer believes there is magic in chain store profits proWs the speaker said s a symptom of Is the desire de- de sire of ot retailers to run chain stores of ot their own C C. H. H St St. Louis vice president of the wholesalers de de- declared declared declared the Inherent strength of ot re retailers re- re retailers retailers and wholesalers with the American public rests on their ability to give the kind of ot service that the consumer expects and ap ap- ap- ap He described the retail grocer as a family adviser ad on what to eat and said one ono of ot his real services to the tho house was the charge account |