Show IGA HOLDS ANNUAL ROUNDUP AT SALT LAKE more than retailer members of the independent grocers alliance who with their families and friends brought the total to several hundred gathered in salt lake city on monday evening february 15 to attend the organizations annual retailer roundup the meeting sponsored ored by the utah wholesale grocery co was held in the companas comp anys warehouse the rot retailers ailers represented not tonly kinly salt lake city but the surrounding community and nearby towns ar M 0 packard president of the 1 J SIDNEY JOHNSON company presided as chairman chief speaker was J sidney john son director of the IGA merchandise mer chandis ing advertising department who addressed the grocers on the huge na tion wide store modernization program just lawa fidure i I 1 te e giom the project which will continue for three years and make the IGA retail outlets the most modern and up to date in the country is is expected to run well into seven figures before its completion speaking before a similar meet biz inar in chicago several days ago mr johnson said while we know the necessity for modern stores in meet ling ing competition a new and more deep seated reason for has entered entered the picture 11 affirmation of the fair trade tice laws of california Cali ornia tornia and 11 illinois by the supreme court will undoubtedly I 1 bring similar legislation in other states within the next year or two i with such laws bringing about the end of price cutting as a means of getting business and more or less stabilizing prices we are probably i on the verge of a revolution in mer chandis ng methods I 1 with price chiseling chi out with markup mark up op legally regulated and all other things fairly equal the cleanest most attractive and most modern stores are going to get the business we in IGA propose to get it the housewife of today he pointed out is getting more critical and busi ness like and demanding that her continued on page live five IGA ROUNDUP continued from page 1 grocer be more efficient so as aa to serve her bei more economically other speakers were T L beattie of the loose wiles biscuit can co end and C J burlingame of the blue seal co their talks dealt with ith the technical aspects of mei merchandising chan I 1 sing the conclusion of the program was a personal appearance of joan kay pretty sally may of the famed IGA national broadcast one girl in a I 1 million miss kay enacted parts from several episodes of the air air serial |