PRICE OF GROCERIES
CO-OPEUATIVI3 HNTI3RPKISE HE' COMMENDED.
Melbourne, April 27. The Inter-Stale Commission's report on tlio price of groceries finds that tho higher prices are dui.\ amongst other causes to wasteful methods in distribution and tho heightened spending power of tho community, owing to tho Government's largo wnii expenditure. A contributing cause is the dominating position occupied l).v tho . associations of wholesale merchants. In instancing thn absurd waste, unremuncrated effort, and capital in connection with the small Krocery business, the report states Hint sixty-nino representative shops in thn metropolitan area, which turn over JMOS.OOi), am conducted with a net loss of AHB7-L Only thirty-nine of the shops made a net profit of «C7R each.. The Commission recommends co-operative enterprise, with a view to cheapening prices. It found evidences, oil the wholesale and manufacturing side, of a trade organisation, which is developing a rigid exclusivoness and threatening to harden into a, monopoly.—Pross Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 188, 29 April 1918, Page 8
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152PRICE OF GROCERIES Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 188, 29 April 1918, Page 8
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