BRITISH FOOD PRICES
Inquiry by Markets Supply Committee DISTRIBUTION COSTS By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received January 29,11.35 p.m.) London, January 29. . The “Daily Herald” says that the .Markets Supply Committee has been quietly collecting facts regarding the price of food which may revolutionise retail distribution. It has discovered that food can be 25 per cent, cheaper if sold from depots without delivery at- customers’ bouses. Moreover, when prices of most foodstuffs are reduced the quantity consumed rises out of all proportion to the fail in price. Investigators are now inquiring if housewives who are willing to take their purchases'home must be charged the same price as those for whom the retailer maintains an expensive deliver,? service.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 107, 30 January 1935, Page 9
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115BRITISH FOOD PRICES Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 107, 30 January 1935, Page 9
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