GOODS IN PACKETS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 85, 31 July 1942, Page 5

GOODS IN PACKETS

GROCER REGARDS IT AS WASTE DURING WAR

A reversal to the practice of many 3'ears ago of selling from the case or barrel is advo?ated by a Wellington city grocer as a means of saAing the labour and material at present required for making con»tainers for paeketed goods. As an instance he indicated, in his shop many kinds of goods all done u]) neatly in gaily-coloured pac-i kets or tins. That all meant cx> pense, labour, and real Avaste of paper at the present time, said the grocer. "Why can't Ave get down to the real thing and conduct our shops with bulk goods, the same as our grandfathers did?" lie asked. It Avas certainly Aery convenient to sell by the packet, all ready to pass over the counter, but what a Avaste of labour and material. The people Avould be just as well served if grocers sold from the case, or barrel, as they did 50 years ago. All this packeting of goods makes J'or a lot of labour —the designing of the labels, the printing of them, the formation of the cartons and the packing of the goods in them—but was it necessary at a time Avhcn manpower Avas in demand for Avar Avork? After many years of up-to-date merchandising some people would not like a change back to the old methods, but these had served their purpose once and could do so again.