Daily Republican., 1882-04-22
BAD CUSTOMERS.
puoPLE OUR MERCHANTs
LAVE TO CONTEND WITH.
..n,ns Of which Oar store
s....rs have Just Cause ss
"rur,s,u The Newspaper
R,rrower.Annoyiug NAB
,,s OF penarious People.

..,mnlsint against certain CLASS o'
|co% y ". customers, whose penurious acts
srs thus described -,
sl1 nsrson OF this kind will enter
.ocsyv store and call for o pound oi
nUsr lar on which there is little, If any
usst us and while the grocer Is weighing
Ehs desired article, the customer Is not
;dIs au Init may be seen actively engaged
T. ius sampling the cheese, cakes, crackers,
,aisins ~ etc, that are within reach.
T If ia stated that it is not only gro.
osrs tba. have this evil to contend with
Sut tbe contectioners and In fact all
v,ho have small articles standing in
close \ on proximity to the customer. The
market people also suffer greatly in the
.ame manner All kinds OF eatables
are sampled,
There are no doubt many persons
uho do this untbinkingly, while there
Eva others who make regular prac-
Eca of IT, a, the same time copgratula-
Enr themselves with the thought that
Shey are sharp and shrewd.
4 story is told ofa Philadelphia mi.
er that he was never known to pur-
Shase berries or fruits of any kind, and
|et during the season he always enjoy
i All he wanted. His practice WAS to
"a through the market asking the price
Snd tasting each article until he had
aten all he wanted.
| Il is not positively known that there
Ire any Of that class in this city, but
kom the way some persons act, / looks
|ery much like it. In lieu of such a
hodel fruit and berry cribber, Whining
bn, can boast Of newspaper tiends who
eads all the papers without subscrib-
bg for a single one OF them. These
ends generally have number of loaf.
BIZ places a certain msrc chants stores,
Be police station, hotels and other pub.
{ places, where they regularly call
billy to peruse the columns of the var
Jus newspapers. Many of this class
fe wealthy citizens, and when they
pine in, they most generally ask
see the paper few minutes, in
kder to glance over the report of the
)Dck market for a moment or TWO, but
|hen he gets the paper into his posses
n, ne senera',y c"n'riVes 10 monopo'
n l'-o!len oei'ie the reai owner mas
chance to look at it-.for an hour or
pger.
ALWAYS SHORT A FEW CBNTs.
|storekespers are also trouhI.d w,tb
bother class Of customers which will |
4 in place to sneak Of hefors clns;na
Lis class never nick mn anr,b;on
Z store but thew frspnantiu s fs,,n ~
W cents short Of bar;nn b ,nn ."n
|bugh to nav for what ,hsn n,rnhasos s ,
when they come in again thev ars
minded by the storaEeansr r of "' ~,
Nv are yery ant IN oo o9 w. " hm
b pronounce Mr. Storakaansr n, tha
)anest man they ever knew bac,rao
actually dunned them for 49,
cent?; and VET that ava nr W. ton hnoor oe,,a
" be more Than his nros, ~ 'on oonVs
pn the article. A lawsuit At HarriSe ,
kg, revealed the facr tha. ' 0",na "r a"ir,s g.
there was man Ev;nn az tha,
zee, who, although onite wss,thn @ % !,
i exceedingly osSm iat'e wealthy, D.,
y customer at certain store, and /
sS :sn,a managed 10 be from three TO =
tSi yeI'' M snort OF the amount to pay !
vol ' ., lns storekseper as'5ed him
w. wa,a aGnes a ior the small amounts
~ uue' put ne always had some
Cchan. ~ noO setthng. Finally, the
nn. snto,. procured book, in which =
ssd' doc toosthe. .ne "rlleles this man pur. q
amon,s vu, together with the date, and +
bis avua' waa Ilat ne fell short.
va,a was continued for some two or +,
tha "a'', when the customer died .
l. 'le 1',, s,torekeep+r presented his a
Iured p doII.a amounted to nearly one .
S,ed ;ved oolLars' @ to the executors, and +
: how tbsS tba . uollar: This goes to a
ons @ of the i,, small items count up.
snra' vueoa ltself IL but trihe, bur in
tSSs'tgate tSs tie loss is considerabI,
coIo sou 'S,,oifekeeners ~ have just can.
sbonII bp,atn'' h Some extreme me ) A
bkesnar.o o0 lak-n cy merchants An / a a
( |coujI p'is. be- where whereby this growing n +,
,on. ." 'io"en up tl
'Uss nS 'ANrLING CUSTOMERS. e,
ssoa sssooaaversing with a prominent a
kter pe, tha, ~ 'his city he said to the et
,ba M 'Ia, na.! no ha: no doubt that du 81
,nI raI PaSt year he had fully one
IL ~ uo'iars worth of goods taken
wa,a a.a''ler' He also said that his
were apparently sealed in this NJ
III IF be ne Si1 vas !. unable to say any W
Isp,i = ue uld it would be vaken as dl
4 rid anu ~ while he wo I'D be glad 81
vii, VI that class of customers
{frian, use their influence among fe
na ..'laS nc and iniure ibis huSine $50 or
kers. y !" 50 eleese Il and two or three co
Ien ta that comes to be multipIied an
n.' twenty times during the dav Ip1'ea IL of
ara; S several pounds and makes 81
No "'Eln GIN OF profit exceedingly small
! msroha, ep,huer, therefore, that many us
srrac ~erchants are beginning to place i'm
rsv sv'tens te around their portable
Setty y, hu., aae purpose of preventing
IVY business. is
STILL ANOTHER CLASS. thi
lie the groccrs oto s. Ic
loss the ary uoods ' % aaner % a pscu' TAI
siy and oetsn times oan.s doas are yo
eu by class of nson,a a"spo'aIeiy wi
lelr places of business' = "no ua.,y ho
pose than inst noss 10 sss iot no 9TH no,
n stock, with w W see what they ate
hatever. Thar ~ IN, ln1entlon ofbny- tw,
Ptins, when thew "'cs can LOOK h.sS, at silks an,