GOODS IN PACKETS
WHY NOT SELL FROM BULK?
(0.C.) WELLINGTON, this day. A reversal to the practice of many years ago of selling from the case or ~r r e t w as ad vocated yesterday by a Wellington city grocer as a means of savmg the labour and material at present required for making containers for packeted goods. As an instance he indicated in his shop many kinds of goods all done up neatly in gaily-coloured packets or tins. That all meant expense labour, and waste of paper. ' The people would be just as well served if grocers sold from the case or barrel as they did 50 years ago " he said. All this packeting of goods makes for a lot of labour the designing of the labels, the printinj of them, the formation of the carthemanbut f* P ?t Cking ° £ the goods in s necessary at a time wSr w^rk?"° Wer Was demand for
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 175, 27 July 1942, Page 4
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