The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-06-17
RICHMOND IN It'll
GROCERY J |. 4 TRADE A: 1
isSsas
Has No Competitor illll III
South. and Takes
None in North.
FREIGHT RATES M
FAVOR THIS NlARKE'I 4 u
Twenty Odd Wholesale Gro
Houses in Richmond Do IA ~
Business, the Dimensions ss
of Which Are Simply SRI
Wonderful to the 5lssssEEss
Nj Uninforned i. 4

Richmond has always been a. 5who1e4S
sale grocery market Away; back yon4.
der before the Civil War. there vera
5housesfin this city which sold grocertes4
by Wholesale to Virginia and II orths Caros
|5linaretailers. Insthosea days, The businessyx
was done along very different lines
from those upon which it Is now con-
States named. Then I he W hol esa1ef grocer
sold pretty much every thing, not sexsgs
Icepting heavy dry goods. such as sheet-M
ling, goods for the making Of lothingS,
for tho negroes on the farm, etc.
AZ Nowadays the Wholesale grocer sellsis
only eat bles, and lot all 8of i he orTS
instance. the bulk Of he meat T. buslnesx:
5is done by the packing houses, and tlisSI
sit business Is distinctive Grocer mo-
longer sell leather as IN the old ! days.
I but that comnod lily Is sold by the wholests
sale leather merchants. is35S'
In old times the grocer sold nails and fss
other ha I'd ware. but now tina t Is Salso@nl
distinctive business. and the grocer#s llsSF
only groceries proper, b but the twentySsg
odd Wholesale grocery houses In ri CHI a
mond sell these In sue h III yolunle that
they do not miss the other lines. # 9 HI
Richmond merchants no longer sell
green coffee In sacks, as In the old sdays;s
but they buy immense guam It'll s5 ofa greenbs
Coffee and 4 In their own blishmentsS
In N various a suitable sizes, XII and IN thtss
shape more pounds OF coffee SO out Sots
Richmond than ever before known In itstss
history Seven or eight Of the 3wholes aleSss
grocery houses have coffee roastingss
plants, which they run In come ctionsS
with X their other business, and NJ 81 ysss
pretty much all OF the Sou tn wi q Toast edIss
coffees 2H
Figures Tell the Tale
1T Is not an easy mat ter to get theSs
figures that show Richmond s in1mensesSSf
wholesale grocery ira de- but the books t,h III
of the railway companies tell q tale that vi
lis simply wonderful and will probably " sur
prise many Of the readers Of The sTimesYSs
Dispatch. 3fs 3ss f$es
books Of Just one OF the trunk lines are 1 E
valuable In this connection. The "a cures vi
from these books for the first three sS
months Of the current year how ~ atat TIC s
Wholesale grocers shipped during 4 thaeyY8g
period 900 tons of groceries, nm In 81,
crease of twenty-five per cent, over thes&s
same period OF two years ago. Null iply55s
this total for three months by four ana sss
YOU have a years shipments on O. COMFY
servatives estimate Of 708. 900 tons; Add VI
to this what Is know as drop L shi
ments" and also the goods sold d 70 ~ aSssss
local trade in Richmond and sManch estesrsss
which do not figure on the railroad books
and We have a total business Of somessss;S?
thing like a million and a quarter tons Nh
of groceries that have passed throug s5;
the hands Of the Wholesale grocers during f3ss
the past year. " nj NJ
sassDrop Shipme 3SSIs n n
.,Drop shipments are heavy goodlss n
bought and sold by Richmond obberd
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