The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-11-03
AGAINST MAIL ORDERS.
Country Merchants Fight Catalogue
Houses Through Local Werklies.

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| Houses Through Local Werklies.
Cronin Brothers. owning general
store at Morris. H.. town between
| three thousand and four thousand peo-
pie. publish large interesting ads in
| the local newspaper. advocating buy
| ing at home and offering to sell at
same prices as the large Chicago
houses. if freight. etc. be added. The
announcements are so large as TO
make their reproduction an impossi.
bility. In the paragraphs below. the
gist Of one Of them is given without
display:
We propose to meet the prices Of tho
department stores or catalogue houses.
All we ask is that you deal with us
on the same basis that YOU deal with
catalogue houses. and give us the same
amount of time to get the goods which
it would require to get them from
them. Plank your money down when
YOU order the goods and we will meet
each and every price they make and
furnish you the same goods At the
same prices they offer you.
We will go further.
We don't ask you to take any goods
where mistakes are made in ordering.
Well shoulder the mistakes. If any OF
YOU have ever had anything come
wrong you know what nice little JOB
it is to get it corrected. no matter how
willing the firm is to DO so. 1t takes
correspondence. stamps and freight OH
the goods to get them exchanged, to
say nothing of the loss Of time.
Some people prefer to buy away from
home because it sounds big to he able
to say they ordered from Chicago. etc.
We know of one party who is actually
having more for goods bought away
from Morris than he could buy them
of his dealer here. This kind OF peo-
pie we can do nothing for. but the KIND
who are making the dollar 90 just as
far as they can. we can and VIII 90
something for. Give us trial on the
proposition we make If you are one
of those who have been buying away
from home. Bring your catalogue with
YOU. II we fail to furnish the goods
without a re -.sonable excuse don't give
us your confidence again. Try us once.
We don't fear the result. We are
residents of Morris. We are your
home merchants. We help pay taxes.
wa have to live and consume some OF
your products.
Is our proposition wrong?
The whole trouble about onr people
about Morris is the same with which
so many communities are sunerins.
That old slow-coach credit. Some OF
it so slow we never get it. No mer-
chant can sell goods cheap on that
plan. The dollar invested i'll goods To-
day and sold for cash tomorrow can
be invested in more goods the toiloW-
ing day and the same process OF SAFE
may be repeated, but the dollar IN
vested in goods to-day and SOLD OF
credit tomorrow is tied up just so long
as YOU don't get it back, and its earn-
ing capacity is stopped for the mer-
chant until he gets it back again. Can
YOU wonder why the catalogue house
has the advantage in price over most
Of YOUR home merchants? The cata-
loeue house won't trust you; even ae-
mands the money in advance with no
goods in sight. Your home merchant
often trusts and often to his sorrow
even though 100 per cent. sometimes
be his profit. Many times seeming
profit of 25 per cent OH goods sold 10
a good man turns out to be merely >
small interest on the money invested
because of slow pay. Treat *our home
merchant like you are compelled !"
treat your catalogue house ana we
think you will get better results.