SUPPLY AND BUY

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1932, Page 6

SUPPLY AND BUY

Often charges have been made that British manufacturers are not so willing as foreigners to; meet local wishes. When requests are made for particular styles there' is sometimes the suggestion that the British article is the.best and that the customer should be told tins not supplied with what he asks for. One result of the "Buy British" campaign in England is that a similar experience has been met with there. The buyer of. a West End house wrote recently to "The Times" quoting unsatisfactory replies from manufacturers when- he had sought British copies of foreign goods .for which there was a. demand. "Your customers ought not to Want that sort of thing," was the effect of some replies. "The Times"-did >not, however, re-, gard die correspondent's protest as discouraging. It rather indicated success of the propaganda in so far as shoppers were /demanding British goods and retailers- were in some cases placed in the embarrassing position of being unaßle to'supply particular articles of British origin. And but of die protest caine'an excel--lent suggestion by the President'of the Association; of British Chambers of Commerce diat V local chambers should undertake die task' of discovering British sources of supply of goods for which die retailers found a public demand. The chambers, in other words, • should interest themselves so diat diere should be no v further, ground for complaint, of a "take it or leave it" attitude.