The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-19
A Co-oPERATIVE MARKETER.
and Dollars a Year Marketing for
Families.


and Dollars a Year Marketing for
Families.
New York, Nov. 17-"There are fourteen
families for whom 1 market and my salary
for the work is $500" Miss Elizabeth Ar
mold admitted when approached and asked
to talk about her work II may or may not
be the only co operative marketer, but if
there are others 1 have never heard of
them.
IT begun with three families, friends,
who agreed TO allow me 10 do their mar
keting and profit by the per cent. which
could induce the marketmen to allow, af-
ter the manner of a shopping agent. That
plan didn't work so well, and I finally
Induced them 10 Try ne for six months on
a salary-one hundred collars. At The end
of the time agreed upcn all the parties
concerned-myself included-were so wei
pleased with the result that contracted
for a year.
"Realzing that the larger the quantities
of provisions could buy the cheaper .hey
would be, sat about to find other patrons.
1 succeeded in getting ten families on The
same terms, and since that time four OH
ers have been added to my list. These last
additions | would like to say, however,
came to me. 1 did not solicit Their orders.
| because l really did not care to take more
than ten.
MY work is 50 systema tize1 that / can
| tell you Just how manage it now though
when l first began 1 fancy 1t would have
| been difficult 10 make any one understand
my many maneuvers.
First. of course, 1 visit each patron.
find out just what they wish for the next
/ day. Next morning l go to the market
with my lists, examine meats, fish, vegeta-
/ bles, fruits. or whatever l am to buy and
| give my orders. OF course, l see that eV-
| cry article is the very best of its Kind,
/ and buying in such large quantities the
! dealers are willing to allow me the dis
/ counts they give small dealers. My pat
rons get the benefit of this discount, so,
of course. their supplies come to them
! cheaper Besides a reduction in price by
buying at the market instead of the cor
ner grocers, they get everything as fresh
as it can be bought, and have a much
! greater variety TO select from.
| Certainly my experience tells, and l am
! better able to select good provisions than
| The average cook or even mistress, though
! it is very seldom these days that either
| of them go to the market. AS a rule they
content themselves with ordering through
| their grocer and butcher, and take what
ever he brings them az whatever price
he charges.
my work as rule is all done in the
morning before 1 O'Clock. Generally my
| actual marketing is over at $50 o'clock
| then l start out on my round of calls to
receive orders for the next day. 1 make
| II a point, of course, to visit my fourteen
households each day, and you can easily
understand how busy 1 am between $3.50
and 10 o'clock. However, they are all
| quite near together, so / manage it very
comfortably.
Il have nothing to do with making out
the menus although 1 fancy it would
| come into the province of my work were
l not so busy. For woman wishing to
undertake my business 1 would advise her
| 10 market for fewer families, and as far
as possible make out the menus. Every
housekeeper viii ask her advice, and will
| in the end leave the greater part of the
selection to the marketer, so If she would
begin correctly let her bargain TO make the
| menus for each day. 1t will not only put
| more money in her pocket, but she will
be credited with what she really does
! Now. l in reality make the menus for a
| largely majority of my patrons, but l am
| benefited by that branch of my work
neither financially nor otherwise"
Lafayette M. Laws.
|
| D~oe D-aaipb Gehvi11 vubo hos hoo,