Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — Sugar at Retail. [ARTICLE]

Sugar at Retail.

Grocers everywhere assert that there is little or no profit in retailing sugars, and housekeepers confirm this by saying that there is small economy In buying sugar by the keg. The tradition touching the small profit in handling sugar at retail is certainly more than 100 years old, for a writer in the middle of last century affirmed that London grocers of .that day were often out £6O to £7O a year for paper and packthread used in wrapping up sugar, and some grocers would not sell sugar to a customer who did not at the same time purchase some other article.—Chicago Herald.