Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-11-26

of this line,'' said the man at the
telephone, Estates that it is the aim
to give just about the same proper
ton of -four in large or small quani-
ties
Call up about apples,'' was the
next direction. 1t developed that
apples were offered for IS cents a
bushel, but by the peck the cost was
from 25 cents to 80 cents. These
were fair grade of apples.
| There is a saving of so cents a
bushel there. anyway" said the chaps
who were figuring.
How about canned goods-like
canned corn and canned tomatoes?''
was asked.
1t developed that on a dozen cans
the 10 cent tomatoes, only the price
of one can per dozen was saved, hard
ly worth the trouble of buying in
bulk In buying half gross of as
sorted cans, however, from so to &C
cents was found to be gained.
| Let's just make up a bill out OF
all this, said the man who made the
original suggestion, land see what
we have. Things like butter, eggs
and steaks and beef meats, of course,
one can't buy in bulk and he will
have to pay for them the regular
small quantity by the pound prices.
He can't keep those things on hand,
even in winter-at least not without
considerable trouble, unless he has a
special place of storage and can cut
the beef meats himself successfully.
But this stuff / have given you can
be bought and kept in bulk without
any extra trouble-and not in very
voluminous bulk at that. Just figure
this up now by bulk and by the
pound
This was the result: One bushel Oh
potatoes at so cents a bushel, one
ham of ten pounds at 10 cents a
pound, one side of bacon of ter
pounds at 35 cents a pound, sixteen
pounds of sugar for 81, forty-eigh1
pounds of flour for S1.45, one bushe
of apples for rs cents a bushel, and
six dozen assorted canned peas, corn
tomatoes and so forth of staple stuff
aggregated a total cost of SIG. This
is stuff and price bought in bulk.
The same things bought by pecks
pounds, half sacks and cans aggre-
gated total of $2O.O3.
| There is a saving of s4.O3 on that
one bill of goods" said the high
price of living reducer. "Now those
figures are conservative. l don't
doubt but that if you would have
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have bargain days in lump sums that
you could have saved an additional s.
to 81 so on the bill. But these figures
are just plain every day prices, and
the comparative figures were from
the same store-not a lump or bulk
price from one store and per pound
or a per peck price from another
store. ] tried this idea. i tried it in
my own family. We saved so last
month on our grocery bill and had
practically the same stuff that we
had the preceding month. We just
tested the thing. OF course, when
some people have lot of stuff in the
house they use more, but there it is
purely matter of household manage
ment.'
But what does the grocer think of
selling the stuff in bulk?'' was asked.
Il talked to several was the re-
ply, ''and they are willing. They are
perfectly willing. 1t makes no differ
ence to them in the long run. Take
a grocer who comes to your house
two or three times day with little
20 cent and 40 cent meat orders.
That grocer can't do that delivering
for nothing. He must have pay for
his wagon, his horse. his deliveryman
and all that sort of thing, and all OF
4 the work that putting up small orders
entails With the average grocery
man one person must be at the tele-
phone orders over the phone. He
must have pay for that. Now sup
pose you buy lot of these thing in
bulk. He has to make but one trip
TO your house with the whole load,
which if you bought in small guam
titles he might have to make hun
bred trips to get it to your house.
The grocer can afford to sell things
more cheaply in bulk
Take it from me, the scheme Is
good for four bases. Every time you
hit the ball with it you'll make the