IMPORTERS AND HIGH PRICES
CO-OPERATIVE BUYING BLOCKED BY WHOLESALE FIRMS. Much dissatisfaction in several retail trades is caused by tho efforts of wholesale distributors of goods to prevent certain lines of goods being purchased through other than the usual wholesale agencies, states the Melbourne "Age." Recently wholesale distributors put as much as 80 per cent, on to the landed cost of some goods before selling them to the retailers and by tho time the retailers' expenses are added the cost to the public becomes greatly enhanced. Immediately retailers combine to buy co-operatively the wholesale distributors use every means in their power to have the supplies of goods cut off. Pressure is brought to bear on local manufacturers in different ways. On.e method is to cancol all orders unless the co-operative buyers have their supplies stopped, and this usually has the desired effect. Another method is to threaten a manufacturer with competition by commencing a. similar line in opposition. The manufacturer does not always realise that the retailers are tho real sellers of his goods, and submits to pressure.* It is alleged that some time back two firms, in order to coerce a manufacturer to cease supplying a co-operative buying concern, refused to accept delivery of goods after thev had been railed from another State, at heavy expense to the manufacturer. 'Die manufacturer, however, refused to be coerced, with the result, that the public, saves about 9d. on each of the particular articles purchased. The State Government was urged to place a clause in the Necessary C'ommoi dities (Anti-profiteering) Bill when it ! was before Parliament, to provide that • hona-fide co-operative buying bodies should be supplied at the same terms, prices and discounts ft? other large buyers, and that it be made an offence for any person or firm to coerce or threaten any supplier of goods to co-operative buyer*. The sincerity of the Government in its efforts to chock profiteering may bo iud"cd liv the fact that it declined lo accept' tho proposal. There arc various means of checking the increasing cost of living, but one effective method is to cut out all unecessary distributing expense between the manufacturer and the public-. • .
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 147, 17 March 1920, Page 7
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361IMPORTERS AND HIGH PRICES Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 147, 17 March 1920, Page 7
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