Denver labor bulletin., 1915-09-04
BUYING FOR
The HOME
Are You PayingMore Than
You Should for Food?

A great deal to do with the "high
cost of living" is the where and how"
You buy for your home.
True economy in buying for your home
is not denying yourself of the necessi-
ties and comforts to which you are ac
customed, but by stopping the extrava-
gance in paying more than is necessary
for the things you buy. All merchants
do not sell goods of the same quality at
the same price.
The buying for your home use should
be on equally as conservative and care
full basis as buying to sell again.
What would you think of the business
ability of merchant who would buy all
his goods from Jones just because Jones'
warehouse is handy, or because he hap
pens to know Jones, without knowing
whether he is paying Jones more for
his goods than he could buy them for
elsewhere?
Now the business of your household is
Just as important as the business of the
merchant. In one the object to be OBJ
tanned is to use as little of your income
as possible to have what you want. The
other is to make a good profit on his
business, that he may buy the things he
wants. If you pay more of your income
than is necessary to receive the things
business of your home on sound busi-
ness basis.
Do you think you are getting the
full value of your money if you pay
credit stores 20 or % per cent more for
your goods each month Just for a credit
accommodation when you can save this
amount by buying from the John
Thompson Grocery Company or the
Grand Grocery?
You know the use of money is worth
money, and that goods cannot be bought
and sold on a credit basis as low as on
a cash basis. You know that the mer-
chant who buys in large quantities pays
less for his goods than does the mer-
chant who buys from hand to mouth
Therefore to have all the benefits of
your own money. to receive the greatest
benefit from your income. you must pay
cash, but not to credit store, for that
would avail you nothing. You would
still be paving credit prices. But buy
from a store that sells for cash only. 1t
is there. and there only, that your
money will buy its greatest quantity.
Second, you must not overlook the
advantages the merchant who buys in
great quantities can give you.
Third you should buy in as large
quantities as you can properly care for,
as YOU can save sOHletnlHg OH tnc piice
by buying in full packages.
Your foods are the most important
item of your home business; you must
have it good and wholesome; you cannot
sacrifice quality to obtain it at less cost,
but must find the store that will give
you the greatest quantity of the good
wholesome quality for the lowest price
The John Thompson Grocery Company
and tie Grand Grocery Company are the
only two stores in Denver that offer you
the combination of money-saving prin-
ciples--selling for cash. and cash only
buying in great quantities and selling on
the basis of the cost, rendering prompt
and careful service. The good and
wholesome in all that is used for food
or drink.
If you are buying from some credit
store. whether you buy for cash or on
credit, you are paying more than you
need pay for your foods; then you are
not getting all you should have for your
money: you are not buying for your
home on a business basis; you are helping
make your high cost of living. Editor