The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1906-11-02
CASH BUYERS UNION
The Norquist Department Store
of This City.

OF This City.
Splendid facilities fer buying in
quantities Ia the largest markets of
the country places them on an equal
footing with the biggest jobbers.
Consumers will no longer be asked
70 pay exorhitant prices for classes
Of merchandise handled by these
stores.
The prodigious money saving event
for thousands and thousands Of wage
eaFners throughout the entire Pacific
northwest.
1t Ii less than seven years ago that
three or four merchants In Washing
ton conceived the plan, and associated
together for the purpose Of buying
goods collectively from the largest
and best jobbers In the country.
The scheme worked so we'll that they
have increased their numbers from
time 10 time, until at the present
writing they have the strongest CON-
bination Of Its kind In existence buy.
ing their goods from the foremost
manufacturers of the land.
Their unequalled facilities for buy
ing In the largest markets of the
world has undoubtedly been the
means Of their success and progression
up 20 the present time. They may,
indeed, count themselves very for.
tunate In being unidentified with such
monstrous CONCERN as the Cash
Buyers Union, ~ they only have one
representative In each town or city.
Arrangements are now under way to
increase their numbers, and IL their
plans now under consideration ma,
teriaiize they will have an even 1OC
members before June /. 1907,
They will then be in position To
control the entire production Of some
OF the largest mills Ia the east, which
will give them an advantage In buy
inG over most Of the jobbers and
wholesalers Of the country. As 1t Ii
NO they are on an equal footing
with the iobbers, buying their goods
In large quantities direct from the
manufacturers, saving at all times
the middle man's profit, which means
. saving Of many thousands OF dollar,
during a single seasons business.
II IL rumored that some of tn,
leading merchants In the west not
members of the Unlon will ask the
courts to enioin this oganizatiol
from further consolidation, ON tn,
grounds that II is a menace Of thoi
Interests, as they are unable to sell
their wares and merchandise at price
prevailing In these stores by reason o
their inability to buy their goods
cheaply aa their alert competitors
II Is difsionlt, however. to see hoy
they can make this stand hold good,
for certainly there IL no law restrain
tnr individuals from buying as uui
and receiving the same prices as a
jobhers for like quantities OF goods
While this is trust ia one sense O
the word, IL Is not trust In tn
sense that Il controls production an,
seeks 10 raise prices but, on the othe
hand, they seek 70 lower prices to th
consumer. and this Is what the retail
eF objects to, end where one mer
chant Is disconnected tnousan,
people profit by the low prices
The great masses Of the people will
welcome the advent OF the Cash Buy
ers' Union In the Pacific northwest
klondike prices for merchandis
have had their day, and now the
must give way TO eastern merchant
coming west who better understan
legitimate merchandising and ara will
ling to sell for cash at REASONABLE
profit. Most of the tradesmen bCrl
and bred In the west almost loo
with scorn ON anything less than
two bin piece, forgetting that III
nickles make the dimes and the dime
make the dollars.
II looks as IL the Cash Buyer
Union was an institution that ha