The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-01-20
CASH DISCOUNTS AND HOME BUYING.

Continuing the subject of home buying cash buying and the
undermining of the Hawaiian merchandise business all concerned
that the public discussion of the last few months has resulted
good to the parties seller the buyer
business transactions greater extent than the mainland We
must be fiendsfor the that we be ngbos The
extremely The carry big
reghs at weekly monthly intervals instead Of daily
by They have to have larger capital Rapid
possible without the highest type of executive and administrative
ability Our merchants must have exceedingly good Judgment in
buying stocks because if they get loaded with unsuitable
suitable merchandise the market inelasc The mainland
chant who buys for 100000 population market has five hundred
other population markets of equal unit size to which he divert
locally unsuitable goods provided he makes mistakes of judgment
buying stock Our bbe and wholesalers must bear proportion
aey heavier losses than the mainland firms under such circu
stances because the nearest equal population unit six days dis
there bumper crop Arook County Maine when poa
selling at shocrop Oregon lumber
the prairie States All these outlets
1t takes broader and kener operate successful
equal sze and these must be paid higher salaries Clerks
paid better wages than in most markets where the volume Of trade
small. There iveandletlve spirit eordialy
operation between employer and employee and between merchant
aa ss o g ons Ss
for thing knows that is difficult for deln
tot The majority Hawaii home
not from his friends unless he is criminal insane
Men accustomed to the Hawaiian spirit of ustfuness towards
neighbors have difficulty getting back the ercey
petiye battle More than Of Hawas prominent successful
The Comeback Club again make good There many
such considerations that irrelevant in the hombuyng dis
cuon which really have good deal to do with the price Of pearl
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There point about which much has been said Ha-
waiian merchants must have large capital TO do business here They
they would like get merchandise sales down to cash basis
but there incentive offered the moral neghbor
onehe spirit of fadeang friends Where the credit
TEN largely in here customers this
that there is nothing tangible be gained from the buyers stand
point by early settlement One man pays ms Dill every thirty days
another twice The man lives on his bond inter
his If there fyepercent orcash discount
offered at the end Of the month the customer
would consider it worth his while to his affairs that
he could take advantage of the offer The closer of bust
would benefit The necessity for the small merchant
carrying the millionaire factor that ought to be considered
1t is said to be all too practise all through Hawaii
that it the who pay and does rather than the
who deliberately abuses credit privilege by buying what hi
knows he pay for who adds most to the high tina
the merchants charge in self protection IT. alleged it
the high local prices that provide the incentive for buying from
catalogue of merchant would
considerable share of the blame rests with the big
not with the little fellows who nearly handomoul
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