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Show RETAILING WORKS OVERTIME As the pinch of shortages, priorties and rising prices grows greater, the American consumer is getting a new and more accurate idea of the service provided by an institution he has always taken completely for granted, the retail store. For many years, the main trend in retailing retail-ing has been the reduction of the spread between be-tween what the- producer is paid and what the consumer is charged. That trend still goes on. And the coming of war and the application applica-tion of this nation to an arms-production program unprecedent in world history, has-brought has-brought retailing new tasks. As the general price trend continues upward, all must purchase pur-chase with greater and greater care. |