Show LOADED WITH DYNAMITE in a recent article gordon cook a spokesman tor for organized independent retailer re tailors observes that efforts to legislate tile the chains out of business are loaded with dynamite so car ar as the independent grocer is concerned furthermore he says such efforts are futile because all the chain stores have to do to avoid be iny ing rut put out oat of bus business lile Is to change their form of organization they turn their systems luto into voluntary chains consolidate stores into super markets or follow some other plan which will remove the penal levied against regular chain groups equally important almost every attempt to tax the chains out of business has resulted in additional taxes being placed upon the independent grocer there is only one way to put the tha food chain stores out of business and that is tor for the independents to out merchandise them in recent years volume of business done by chain stores as compared to volume done by independents has tended to deehne unprejudiced economists who have surveyed merchandising are largely of the opinion that chain growth has about reached its apex and that in tho the future the business done by chains will either remain constant or decrease independent merchants through mass buying associations have met chains charils on their own ground the on ly mereb merchants ants who have reason to fear chains are those who are behind the times and are inefficient and such merchants are doomed in any ebent merchants who advocate punitive legislation against the chain systems endanger their own existence |