WINDOW TICKETS

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 23 December 1915, Page 2

WINDOW TICKETS

/. / TO'THE EDITOR ' :'* ', W^ Slßi—When I wish to,make a purchase, ~\^ - especially' out*- of-a -ftnifrsbop'^mdoV;' T""""^"" want to know the price pet pound or per ' l dozen, as the case may be," so that I can. \ , calculate what I can get,for the amount ~- 4 I of money I intend to spend, before i a ; entering a shop. 1 strongly object to ! j having to ask when inside, the price of , I. this, that, and the other, because, in the I first place, it looks mean and disappoint- |^ ing to the person behind the counter f "■> (generally a female) to walk out of the. I ■-'-: shop without spending a penny, and I in the second place, I feel small potatoes T ' for not buying when I think the goods 1 are too expensive ,or being sold at ex- 1 . tortionate rates. What I wou.ld suggest I is that everything should be ticketed I where possible, with either written or 1 " printed plain figures. This would save a *| lot of inconvenience and • asking of I questions, or the chance of having an I extra penny rung on to the innocent one, 1 as if "they saw you coming," as the .1 '."■'; saying goes. The same ..may be.said^of-.X-.,^ fancy goodsr^oys, Jsnd goods of 6very.-> jp^i description I- displayed, in the shop f? windows. As is to^bef seen in any up-to-^l' :^j date townthip, everythinß m Helensville '"£<-, ' .^ should be priced in plain figures. "This ia i'fc. :-;.-|f| a good advertisement —for-the"shbp- KAiS" "^ keeper and pleases the would-be ', ■ • customer, who- dan estimate the goods . and draw his own conclusions accord- ' aft ingly,—l am, etc., : •

Pater Familias.