Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-08-16
GrOcerymdn
Explains High
Cost of LiUinq

Editor Morning Journal
There is a great deal of comment
nowadays as to the high cost of com.
modities that We use daily, and as
there is vast difference Of opinion
as TO the cause, ! am taking this op-
portunity TO explain the situation As
am groceryman, making my liv-
Ing by hard work and selling gro
ceries, ] don't relish the idea Of be.
ing called a CRATER.
In defense of the local grocervmen.
/ VIII state that there is not one arti-
lcle that has been raised in price that
me wholesale price has not advanced
more in proportion than We have
advanced the same.
! Take olive oil as an example. The
Wholesale cost to direct Importers is
over 15 cents gallon more than
7 last week. dare say not one re-
taller has advanced his price.
The millers OF Kansas have adj
vanced their price 20 cents per 100
pounds last week The local mer-
chants have not as yet taken the adj
vance, as they have quite supply on
hand. But they are certainly en-
titled to the same. Are they not?
The next time we buy we have to pay
20 cents per 100 more, and If we had
foresight enough TO buy ahead Of
time, that is before the advance. why
should we not make that additional
profit?
Coffee in the lower grades has ad-
Nanced 3 cents per pound and high
cr grades have advanced from to
3 cents and indications are that II
will go cents higher. but the public
are still paying the same price as
when coffee was at its lowest and
in every instance you get the same
grade as always.
Sugar, of course. is higher than for
many years, and this is the commod-
ity that has caused most of the trou-
bile But if you take into consider
alton that American brokers are
handling the sugar business of the
world at the present time, that one
order placed recently in New York
for 10000 bags which ordinarily
would have gone to a foreign Ger |
manyl country, you will realize why
sugar is high.
With sugar high. you must figure
that naturally many other things 60
up, where sugar is used in the man
for instance canned milk, /
which has advanced in some instances
as much as dollar case There 7
are many sacks Of sugar used in
canning a carload of milk The con-
densors have to pay the price the
day they buy and ] assure you they
raise the price to the jobbers and I
the iobbers to the retailers the min I
ute It advances in cost to them
Take canned fruits. With 45 per
cent syrup or sugar or over, the T
cheapest grades with but 20 per cent +
sugar is it not natural that they T
should be higher? But YOU will find T
every grocery store still maintaining [
heir old prices on both the above T
And SO | could go on !
With every article in the store and /
give you the reason why the advance. 1
and / am sure if YOU will take these
hings into consideration, YOU will 1
agree with me, that for once in his
lie the groceryman is not Il CRATER.
IN fact, he isn't displaying the or
linary amount of human intelligence,
lot taking advantage of raising the
price on most of the stock. as it would
be impossible to duplicate the same
It an advance of Is per cent If they
bought it today
4 GROCERYMAN II
Albuquerque n. NJ, Aug Is, IA.