The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-02-06
Kenosha Merchants Com
plete Preparations to
Make Red Tag Sale a
Real Event.
BARGAINS ARE PLENTIFUL
Special Edition of "The Kenosha
Evening News to Advertise Mer-
chants Offering for Great Car
nival of Bargains End of Week.

Kenosha merchants are call set'
and waiting for the whistle to start
the Red Tag Sale which is to be staged
by the Kenosha Retailers Association
on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of
this week. Already the "Tell-tale"
tags are beginning to appear in the
shop windows of the city to remind
the buying public of the coming sensa-
ton in the retail business of Keno
sha.
Judging from the advertisements
coming into the News Office for the
special Kenosha Retailers Association
Red Tag Sale Edition to be published
tomorrow, the people of Kenosha are
going to enjoy three day festival of
bargains never before heard of in the
history of Kenosha. Merchants have
completed their inventories and are
slashing the prices Of odd lots and
goods carried in departments which
they intend to discontinue. Some appar-
emily find themselves overstocked and
are simply determined to reduce the
same, with the result that clean $3.50
is being cut off everything in the store,
and in many instances this general re-
duction amounts to cutting the price
right in half.
Increased stats are being employed
in most stores. The windows are be-
ing decorated; every sales item will
be marked in plain figures on large
red tag, and Thursday mornihk the
grand bargain event will start.
One merchant when asked this morn
ing regarding the sale stated that in all
the sales events he had been through
he had never experienced one in which
there was such general reduction of
prices and a genuine effort to clean up
stocks. "Dollar Day is the closest APP
preach of it have ever witnessed be-
fore he said ffbut Dollar Day covers
Only such a small part of the stock, due
to the necessity of including only the
cheaper priced goods. This sale takes
in everything. You know in large
merchandise stock there ere always
some odds and ends that are side
tracked and are lost sight of until
inventory time. Then, when discovered
there is not enough to put on display
or bother with, so that it is great adj
vantage to the merchant to clean out
such odd lots at any price he can get.
Also the inventory and annual re-
port many times shows up certain de-
partments in store which do not paw
a profit, due to any one of many causes
AS soon as this is discovered the wise
merchant make an immediate change,
in many instances clearing the entire
stock and using the space for other
more profitable merchandise.
81 know at the present time," he
continued 'tof a number Of such in
stances where retailers are closing out
entire departments. The person who
fails to take advantage of this great
sales event is passing up an opportun-
ity that he will be sorry for later. In
my own store, for instance, / intend to
clean out approximately $500 worth of
.seasonable merchandise, which have
found do not sell readily in store of
the kind 7 conduct, Many other stores
are eliminating much more from their
stocks, and all stores are getting rid
of odds and ends that accumulate more
rapidly than the public has any idea"
The special edition being issued TO
take care of the many announcements
regarding the sale will come out tomor-
row evening. This viii show in detail
many of the items and prices offered.