Unfair Trade
-«. We are pleased to notice that our contemporary the Manawatu Standard has cocanieaced to ventilate a subject which we indicated as a grievance soine years ago. This is the competition by so called wholesale merchants with men in the retail trade. It is a well authenticated fact that anyone with cash in hand can get an order executed by these self-styled wholesale dealers at the same prices as they charge their retail customers who expect to sell the goods in small quantities at a profit ; and that some of the commercial travellers will book an order to a farmer or settler at the same rates which the local retail dealers are charged. There is only one remedy for this sharp practice. Let the retail dealers only make their purchases from recognised wholesale nouses and especially avoid those establishments which, while nominally in the wholesale line, have branch shops for doing retail trade, either next door or a few streets off.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 104, 24 February 1891, Page 2
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162Unfair Trade Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 104, 24 February 1891, Page 2
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