FRENCH GOVERNMENT OPENS STATE SHOPS
PARIS, January 9. The French Council of Ministers decided to open 500 shops in the Par|s area to sell goods at controlled' prices, thus helping the State to control prices1 in other shops. The new shops will work with the Government, to which the owners will be ibound by special contract. The Cabinet decided to create 1000 of the "witness" shops throughout France, and they will contract. with the Government to observe M. Blum#s five per cent. price-cutting experiment, says the Daily Mail's special correspondent in Paris. There will he a witness shop in each big shopping area. The shop gnarantees to sell at. official prices and to give the prices the maximum publicity. The Government. favours including free publicity and opportunity to sell at legal rates any black market stocks seized in.his area. The witness shops will concentrate first on food and clothing.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5298, 10 January 1947, Page 5
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149FRENCH GOVERNMENT OPENS STATE SHOPS Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5298, 10 January 1947, Page 5
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