The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-23
STORE HEADS URGE
EARLY BUYING OF
CHRISTMAS GIFTS
Many Heed Advice of Consumers
League and Tighten Bur-
den of Employees.
LATE SHOPPING MEANS
HEAVY TAX ON DRIVERS
Managers Tell How Public Can
Escape Crush by Purchas-
ing Presents Now.

The efforts of the Consumers League
Of New Jersey TO induce shoppers "
do their Christmas buying before De
CLIMBER Is are meeting with success IL
this city, and the big stores here are
urging their patrons to join the move
ment. Nearly every advertisement
asks that shoppers give their support
by buying early.
'"If shoppers who tell saleswonen
they are sorry they have to work late
nights during the rush time OF the
christmas holidays especially, and the
how and girl wrappers and drivers OF
delivery agons who have to WORK
after the stores are closed" said an
aid employee in a local department
store. "would do their Christmas buy
ing early in the season, early In the
week and early in the day, they wouio
not only help the employees but also
themselves, for they would escape tne
great crush the afternoon and night
lust before Christmas eve.
eft shoppers would not order pack
ages to be delivered at their homes
after 6 O'Clock in the evening they
would relieve the boy and girl wrap
pers and the drivers of delivery M
express wagons of a great deal OF X
ira work the last five to eight nights OF
the season"
AT the big department stores oil
Hahne & Co, L. S. Plaut y CO., IL
Bamberger & Co, the David Straus
Company and W. V. Snyder Company.
II was said that the old employee was
right. 1t was also said that the New
ark stores do not keep open untfl II
o'clock from December 10, to %, as IN
other cities. Some of the local stores
begin to keep open until 10 o'clock or
December 20. and others on December
Us. so hat the employees - on duty
late only from five to eight nights. IL
is the rule, also, in some department
stores to let one-half of the sales
omen and the wrappers go home at 9
o'clock. Those who work until 10
o'clock do not begin work in the morn
ing Until about $3.50 o'clock. Those
who go home early go on duty at S:3e
o'clock in the morning. Here is a COM
posite Interview made up after talks
with managers of the department
stores:
I'VE used to have only one week of
Christmas shopping years ago The
time was extended to a fortnight, then
u a month, and now every store has its
Christmas stock displayed for sale be-
fore Thanksgiving Day. Everything
that is new in the toy line, in jewelry,
silver articles, books, pictures and other
Holiday goods are now in the stores for
people to select from.
IF shoppers would come to the stores
early in the season and day, they
would avoid the crush of the closing
afternoons and evenings OF the season.
They would also have time to examine
articles, and the statesmen and sales
women would have time TO serve them
satisfactorily. We like the suggestion
that holiday buyers should mo- order
packages delivered after 6 o'clock the
five to eight nights the stores will be
open until 10 o'clock. If shoppers will
DE- this the drivers of delivery wagons.
and the boys and girls who wrap up
goods will not have to work long after
the stores are closed.
There are people, of course, who
cannot spare money to buy presents
until the last two weeks Of the holiday
season, but the great majority can. If
those who work for a weekly wage
would buy one or WI articles each
week they would not miss the money
when Christmas eve comes. Many us
toners tried this last year, and they
say it worked we'll, that the money
they paid for a present each week
would have been spent for other things.
That people are beginning to buy
early was shown last year, when
christmas " sales fell off in all the
stores"