Download or read book Competition and Combination in the Wholesale Grocery Trade in Philadelphia (Classic Reprint) written by William Lewis Abbott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Competition and Combination in the Wholesale Grocery Trade in Philadelphia These developments, of course, mean a curtailment of the business passing thru the hands of the Wholesalers. One Of'l these is the growth of the chain store systems. These systems, operating a number Of small retail stores in one community, buy in large quantities from the manufacturers, and operate their own wholesale warehouses. In 1917, there were five such systems operating in Philadelphia, The Acme Tea Company, Childs Grocery Company, Bell and Company, the George M. Dunlap Company, and Robinson and Crawford. In that year, these five companies were merged into one system, the American Stores Company. This combined company has a capital of It operates about six hundred stores in Philadelphia, and about an equal number outside the city. It does a business of about a year, none of which goes thru the hands of the wholesalers. A few months after this merger was announced, another chain system entered the city, The Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.