The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-02
NEW STORE OF A,
& P. TEA COMPANY
TO OPEN THURSDAY
New Quarters at 1893 Main St.
Will be Very Handsome
Special Bargains Numerous

In a new store, new location, with
new stock and every thing fresh and
spick and span the Great A. and P.
Tea Co. Will open it's doors for the
public Thursday, Friday and Saturday
with inducements for trade which are
seldom offered to the people of this
city that the opening of the new store
may be an event long to be remember
ed by the customers who participate
in the advantages offered for the
opening day. The new location of the
company is at 1888 Main street, near
Golden Hill, and is in the heart of
the shopping district of the city and
convenient to all of the car lines of
the city. The new store is very hand
some and every bit of the fixtures
and arrangements are new. There
are q couple of very attractive show
goods carried by the company and
giving promise of even better things
within. The arrangement is somewhat
different from the old location in
Main street and there is a great deal
more room which is the reason for
the move, as in the old quarters the
company was hampered in handling
the large lines of teas, coffees, spices,
and staples which it makes a special
ty of.
New Carrier System.
New cash systems have been in
stalled which bring the slips and mon
ey direct to the desk of the book
keeper upon a raised platform at the
rear of the store. There is an ample
cellar and ways for the receiving of
goods at the rear doing away with the
opening of cases upon the walks
To make the opening days memoir
able ones to the customers the COM
pany has planned for special prices up
on a large number of articles which
enter into the daily necessities of the
home and will also give handsome
souvenir to purchasers of goods to
the amount of SO cents Or more with
the exception of butter, sugar, and
eggs, and there are also special stamp
offers made which will be found in an
advertisement in another portion of
the paper. The souvenir for the occas-
ion will be very handsome Japanese
cup and saucer, and this will be in
addition to the allowance of stamps
Special Prices.
Special prices are quoted upon but
ter, teas, coffees, spices, and large
number of staples in the grocery
line which will make the opening
days at the new store very attractive
ones for those who are DESTROYS Of re-
ducing the cost of living. A perusal
of their advertisement is advisable.
Comparatively few people have any
idea how extensive the business of
figures will now be out of place and
will show how it is the company is
able to underbuy and undersen its
competitors Sc readily. The company
is about 90 years old and was doing
successful business in 1865, and after
the big fire in Chicago took a new
impetus, and commenced the policy
of National expansion which has been
pursued since that time. There are
now 325 stores in this great chain
reaching all over the country and they
are being added to at the rate of one
new one each week of the year. The
purchase for this immense chain
means the consumption Of an enor-
nous quantity of supplies, and con-
sequent influence upon the prices.
These 325 stores supply about $780,
900 families, or about 100000 per-
sons, and the sales reach a total of
s125, 100000 each year. This great
and handling of 364 100000 pounds
of merchandise, 30,o00,000 pounds of
butter, 100,000,000 eggs, 100000
pounds of tea and 100000 pounds
of coffee.
On Cash Basis.
To take care of this business the
company employs 5000 wagons, g.
900 horses, and 1000 employees. The
company buys by the shipload, the
crops of an entire countryside, eggs
by trainload, and butter in such i'm
mense quantities that it seems as If
all of the milk from all of the cows
in the country must be required to
make it. And all of these purchases are
for cash, the sales are for cash, and
though the margin of profit for each
sale is small the great number makes
the business highly profitable. That is
why the customer can get more for
his money at these stores than at any
other stores in the country.
All of this immense business is
managed from a central headquarters
in Jersey City, \. j., where an entire
building of handsome construction
and handsomely fitted is required. This
building was completed about three
years sago and is model for an adj
ministration building, fire proof, oc-
cupies an entire city block, and is the
only one of its kind in the world.
Formal Opening Thursday.
Commencing Thursday morning the
doors of the new store will be thrown
open to the public and all of the bus
mess of the company in this city will
be carried on from 1888 Main street
The store is an attractive one, the
goods are temptingly displayed, and
the management has set the prices
at figures which are sure to prove
more tempting. Already the store is
open and business is carried on there
but the formal opening and special
prices come Thursday morning.