The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-04-19


THE EASIEST BUSINESS
Perhaps the easiest business to get into the grocery
business Many think merely weighing sack OF
reaching for package Of Corn Flakes all tnat
operating store Such is not the case
very lines of business that require more careful
study hard work than does the grocery business
Take example Of peas There 30
and grades of this country with many different
kinds from foreign Think OF trying TO learn peas In
days Men have spent their entire lives In the study OF
cofees The grocery trade takes life time to COM
prehend and there is still to learn.
buy good merchandise that it can be retailed at
reasonable price and still show profit to know that mef
chane There vast difference between buying groceries
and merely ordering them.
It also requires knowledge groceries sell them in
diligently Is agreeable to trade with clerk who
knows his business than with who is novice?
We point with considerable pride to the boys who with
U.S. Mr. Bliss just "Biss everyone calls him. is
Bliss learned the grocery business from the school
experience starting apprentice in England Later ne
owned and successfully operated fancy Chicago for
twenty years After coming Kennewck Bliss managed
department for The Produce Company for five
doing the buying for this and all its branches
Mr. Campbell is also groceryman We well as most
our customers call him "Don Don is always the job
SICK always the every day in the week. With the
exception of about year while Don the road for the
Kennew Wholesale he has spent every day back of
grocery counter for the past eight This gives Don
knowledge Of the retail and wholesale business and fits
him to be one of the best in his line
Certainly Mr. Nee needs introduction people
Kennewck Everyone knows "Hank" and when it to
feeds poultry supplies bee supplies etc. Hank the fellow
who knows best Hanks experience in this line
period Of Of which have been spent the
stion he now holds This coupled with three of
the largest wheat warehouses in the Northwest and his know
ledge Of the problems Of the wheat anchers well the prob
lens of the valley farmers makes Hank valuable
customers well as to ourselves
Where could find three better wait your
Mr. Price also groceryan having spent his entire life
since sixteen years age this line following both the whole
sale and retail Price does grocery buying he knows values
market conditions and groceries and is scker for quality
When Price buys canned goods will him with his
and He not for what the picture the
can the contents he is after Twenty thousand pounds
bulk goods bought and sold by last saving
the public Of $OO0O similar goods sold in packages
This alone worthy of and the result of careful buying
In addition Prices buying experience he is at all times able
confer with Bliss and Dom thus giving him additional buying
experience
Mr. Lincoln-that u.s. Frank better known some
"Abe what might be known dualpupose
while his speciality books and finance haven't enough
either all Of his time Frank buys the feeds
long association with The Produce Co. gives him
splendid lineup the feed and grain business He knows how
to advantage By working touch
with Hank keeps stocked with line of feeds
that in quality is second to in the Northwest
the cashier He puts the ink pay checks
pays bills The rest of buy eggs produce
! but if you want money must see Mr. Lincoln.
of s-hats ALL but each thoroy qualified in
his line you will buy your feed and groceries through our
organization will benefit by experience you
assured that the best the market affords and
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