San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-25
GARGES GOES EAST
TO ATTEND MEETING
OF GRANT COMPANY
Manager Of Store Here
Will Spend Week in
Atlantic City.

FL. K. Garges, manager Of the Grant
store here, has been called to Atlantic
City to attend the annual conve. .tion
of the officers and managers of the
w. Il. Grant Company. His trip has
considerable significance to the retail
trade of San Antonio inasmuch as Mr..
Garges will confer with other Grant
managers from over fifty different cit
les, and by an exchange of ideas with
them, make sure that the methods of
merchandising followed in the local
store represent the most progressive
movements in the trade.
OF special interest to Mr.. Garges
will be a series of conferences with the
New York and European buyers in re-
gard to new merchandise, and the
trend of prices. These buyers have a
contact with practically every phase
of business which offers merchandise
to the retail trade, both in the United
States and in Europe. In consulta-
ton with them it is possible to pick up
many new articles which are pleasing
to the public. But of even greater sig
nificance is the opportunity afforded
to communicate to these buyers the
likes and dislikes Of the San Antonio
public so that the local store may pro-
vide itself with the merchandise esper
cially adapted TO the local needs. The
w. I. Grant Company believes that
each of its stores must operate as if it
were the only store of the company
and must govern its policies entirely
in accord with the ideas and require
mpntS of thn given locnlitv
Each manager is impressed with the
necessity for respecting the customs Of
the local merchants in each city, and
for giving real support to the local
business organizations. The funda-
mental policy of the company is to
render n real service in the community
first, and it has been found that if
such service is rendered the profits of
the business take care Of themselves.
The trend of prices will also be dis
cussed so that there may be Ccter-
mined those articles of merchandise
which are most inclined to show rising
prices. The experience Of chain store
merchandising has shown that very
often, rise in price of an article may
be forecast and early purchases made
so that the public can be given the
benefit of the lower price.
While the main object of the conyen-
ton is an intensive study of the latest
methods of merchandising, there is
also another phase which is in the
nature of a reunion with a series Of
entertainments and social meetings.
The officers of the w. 7. Grant Com
pany acting as hosts, have provided
most entertaining program for the
week Of February 10 to 20. L. A.
DAILY, one of Americas most talented
poets and particularly well known for
his dialect talks will add the con-
vention on "The Poetry of Business
Another address which has acquired
muct fame is "Acres Of Diamonds"
by DIR. Russell II. Conwell. DR.. Ed
ward J. Cattell will speak on the
Dawn of Brighter Day." and Mr..
J.. Il. Musil of Henry L. Doherty Com
pany will make an address on .'Budget
Procedure in Management Control"
I'm addition there will be entertain
ment of lighter nature and several
luncheons and dinners at which the
main object will simply be to have a
good time.
1t is understood, from Mr.. Garges
that the year of 1922 was the most
prosperous year IN the history OF the
w. 7. Grant Company.