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Show For Ouality and Price Patronize Local Merhants A FEW days ago we heard considerable cussing. The man who was doing the cussing wes talking on the telephone to a big Salt Lake branch of a chain store. He was cussing because he hadn't gotten the service that the store had promised on the laying of some carpet in his home. ' The thing that made him even more angry was that he couldn't get anyone on the phone who seemed to know anything any-thing about his order, nor anyone who would accept the responsibility re-sponsibility of following up on his complaint. All he got was a royal game of "buck-passing," the likes of which we haven't seen since army , days. The point is this . . the man would have been better off from the standpoint of service and quality of merchandise and price if he had dealt with one of our Sugar House merchants. mer-chants. Most of the so-called bargains that these huge, impersonal imper-sonal chain' stores advertise are not bargains at all, but booby traps which explode in poor quality and poor service. Local merchants are, as a rule, wholly reliable on answer-frig answer-frig any complaint. They guarantee, satisfaction and high quality. qual-ity. And the amazing thing is this . . . their prices are usually as good or better than the big chains when one compares the quality of the merchandise. We received additional assurance of this point the other day during a conversation with a Sugar House furniture man. He offered a wager with another person ithat he could show some merchandise on his floor that was the same as is carried car-ried by a downtown chain, and the local store's prices were 10 per cent lower than the chain's (P. S. The bet wasn't taken.) ., ... . . ." :, All this does not take -into consideration another potent argument in favor of patronizing local stores. In doing so, a person strengHiiens his community." Local store owners are not only interested in their customers, most of them are sincerely sin-cerely interested in the welfare of the community. |