Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-06-10
Plantation Stores and Merchants

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nrosent time ,youid no very ant ia
dr,yo out i,donordo,t stores
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,,o,,oa 90 ,,Ion,o,io, storo nonogers
uaro &, owoot thot ,ho, sbou,d ada
ton mo-, oont 10 tho. INST NJ tho yori.
o,s itons Pharmaceutical on tho ,ist n,
ro,.,sities which 10, nor cant ie
annroximate,y tho cost of onerotip,
tho Manhattan stores We believe
that these ipstructions have not beep
literally CARRIED ont for ~ thew were
the selling prices for such staples
as -four and rice would have been
advanced Instead of reduced, as we
are Informed that these articles have
always been sod at considerably less
than the cost plus operating eX.
penses.
We consider the independent stores
the greatest possible safeguard
against exhorbitant prices being
charged for either necessaries OF
luxuties.
Do away with the Independent
stores and the plantation storekeeper
whose instructions are to sell goods
at cost. will in the majority of cases
lose the ambition necessary to make
proper and keen purchases, so that
without competition the consumer
or, in this particular case, the labor
er, will eventually be at much
greater disadvantage thar If they
had the opportunity and satisfaction
of comparing prices as made at DIFF
ferent sources of supply,
Furthermore. at this particular
time the consumers, or laborers, ar,
liable to gain q wrong impression
concerning the immediate effect Of
the recent order. for the reason that
there has simultaneously occurred &
marked decline in several staple ar,