Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1894 — No Profit in Retailing Sugars. [ARTICLE]

No Profit in Retailing Sugars.

Grocers everywhere assert that there is little or no profit in retailing sugars, and housekeepers confirm this by haying that there is smal. economy in buying sugar by the keg. Ti e tradition touching the sma 1 profit in handling sugars at retail is certainty more than 100 years ola, for a writer in the middle of the last century afflrme. that London grocers of that day were < ft-n tut £6oor£.u a y> ar for paper and pack thread used in wrapping up sugar, and some grocers would not sell sugar to a oust mer who did not a: the same time purchase i-ome other article. It is not unusual for merchants in New York at this t me to sell far below regular retail rates certain articles not properly be! nging to their trade.— New York Sun.