Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 June 1950 — Page 27

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Refrigerated Wall Cabinets Are Aractive And Provide Safe Storage for Foods ~~ Officials of the 8. 8. Kresge Co, are proud of the fountain department in the new Indianapolis store. There are two full-sized - fountains, each representing the most modern developments in workmanship, materials and design—there is no Kresge store in the

country with a finer food department,

artment

resge | Are Well Trained

New Men Begin In Store Stockroom

iT ywall of the main floor salesroom. Managers The other is located in the same

position in ‘the basement sales-

.{. The counter top of the first floor fountain is. red Oriental marble, while Italian marble to match the trim of the salesroom,

treining its store managers. Such men as R. L. Pierce, manager of the new Indianapolis store, store manager only after

merchandising. New Kresge men begin their

..Xoom. of a Kresge store. ln... concentrated course, these men) learn the firm's suppliers, costs

and selling prices. Having mas- serving tered the basie principles of good gleaming stainless steel

stock keeping, moves up to the position of junior assistant manager and! becomes familiar with buying,

he BB Kresge Company| P88 been used for the front panel

th and the front is a harmonizing formica.

are given a position asi:

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Stools Are Chrome

asement fountain.

Cabinets and equipment for] food are designed of which sign of the store and at-the same | time is the ultimate in food sani-| tation. Wall mirrors give a feeling!

¢ | Stools at both fountains are thorough training in all phases of chrome with leather seats in eolors to harmonize with the materials used in the fountains, program of training in the stock- There are 71 stools at the main floor. -fountaln...and. 3%. -at--the 1 givided-nto=four-" districts FF

Thomas C. Morgan Heads Detroit Area

The area covered by the 831 8 Kresge stores in the United States §

Thomas C. Morgan is in charge of the Detroit district in which the 8 new Indianapolis store is located. § The Detroit district covers 111 ¥

the young man carries out the contemporary de-|liresge stores,

Mr. Morgan has one of the long- = 3

company's active employees. He

displays, sales supervision, com- of space and reflect to the cus- has a background of 38 years of pany policies, and customer and.tomers at the fountain the ac-/Kresge merchandising experience.

employee relations,

Next step up the ladder is a posifion as assistant manager. In

" this capacity the manager-elect stores to employ refrigerated wall | begins to direct sales promotion cabinets for the display and safe

{tivity in the busy salesroom be-

hind them, 4 This is one of the first Kresge!

and to assist in the selection and/storage of cream desserts. Stain-

employment of the store person-iless steel roll warmers have

nel. When it is necessary for the! manager to be away, the assistant! manager assumes the duties of the manager and has the respon-| sibility of the entire store opera-| tion. - ai Final step before appointment to store management js senior assistant’ manager. When the| Kresge employee receives this position, he knows that he has been] recommended for store management. And finally, having com-| pleted this period of thorough training, the young man reaches. the goal as store manager. Now| he is practically in business for himself and manages a large in-|

vestment of thousands of dollars./in refrigerators, automatic dish|, Above their actual store manage- and glass washing machines andy

ment, Kresge managers take an active part in community programs, For men with definite merchandising ability, store management is the threshold for an executive career. Managers with —outstanding records are selécted!

supervising approximately

Lor. promotion. to superintendents; the preparation” of “poultry, ‘and per wav P mm £ =

«20 -stores each. Many of thi

merit ron ni : ‘men are chosen for executive positions in the home office in Detroit, or in the district offices in New York, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Chicago. Kresge’'s president, D. C.! Fisher, started as a stockman in! a- Youngstown, -O:, store. ~~

* Kresge Store to Have Full Poultry Section

Good new to shoppers is the an-|painting. 3

" nouncement that the new Kresge store will have a complete Grimes! and Hauer poultry department, | In the Kresge stores which] have Grimes and Hauer counters, | this is one -of thé most popular] departments in the store, { The poultry is displayed in a spotless sanitary counter that is refrigerated to keep the meat] fresh without freezing. There will, "be whole ducks, turkeys and fry-| ing and stewing checkens,

Miss Clara Wente Started in 1905

Tomorrow's elaborate openingday ceremonies and the three full floors of modern merchandise are a far cry from the opening of the original Kresge store in Indianapolis almost a half century ago, says Miss Clara Wente, who ‘has been assisting manager R. L. Pierce with preparations for the opening. : Miss Wente, at the time she retired from service with the 8. 8.

Kresge Co. when the Indianapolis:

store closed in-1948; held the dis« tinction of the employee with the longest record of service among the compahy’= 35,000 employees, Miss Wente's thoughts have re= turned again and again to the days in 1905 when she helped preare the first Kresge store in “Indianapelis for its opening. Looking for First Job A timjdgirl looking for “her first job, she applied for work in 1905 with Floyd Kresge who had been sent to Indianapolis to open and manage one of the company's earliest stores. Mr. Kresge, who is now retired and lives in Indianapolis at 4466

% N. Pennsylvania St. hired Miss

Wente and she began on a job that proved to be her life career, ———— She recatis-that-coal-oll-lamps; " chimney and wicks recefved-prom-inent display on opening day back

Starts Enlarged Food Department

T. W. Parker, who has spent| . tment that she was employed| Leon G: Gridley who will remain,

his life in the food business, and

who also took time out to be an|,¢ yer retirement she was serv- Mr. Gridley was working at af Army cook instructor, Will belo .. buyer of electrical equip- Kresge store in : eed food. department. Six. ment and supplies. {when he was promoted to this arged . ep A bag) Parker will also supervise the y rhad| Ei an cng Br he ro, ie, SR Oke ari Si i hd

present to start Kresge's

sonnel for the fountain.

D. Myers has been selected to

m the food department. program

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been | provided at both counters and orders are given to the kitchen on the third floor by means of the, inter-office communication sys: tem, Hot and ready to serve, or-| ders are delivered to the first floor| and basement from the kitchen on three electric dumb waiters, | |

Modern Kitchen

As well equipped to serve meals) as any restaurant is the modern] kitchen on the third floor. De-| signed to provide the maximum!

in health protection, it. complies,

with the most rigid health depart-| ment requirements. i

There are three spacious walk-|

an ingenious device which auto-| 4p. Detroit district. matically washes, rinses and hot | ie Jocated in the Kresge Building

dries the silverware, making contact of hurnan hands and towels absolutely unnecessary. : One room has been set aside especially for the preparation of raised doughnuts, another for

still another for preparing vegetables; Reem AAA Si pt Make Own Pies

The store will serve pies made in its own kitchen and ‘baked in one of the two large pie ovens. Other equipment includes a steam cooker, -a- fryer, a garbage -dis~ posal unit, meat slicer and mixer. The walls in the food preparation rooms are covered with a

{grease-proof tile which may be

easily cleaned and requires no

Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. he applied for a job in the Kresge in that city in 1911 and was sent

est service records of any of the to the main office in Detroit for |

la six weeks course.

Given Managership E After a few months in Wilkes- = Barre he was promoted to a store in Albany, N. Y,, and the following year was given the management of his own store in Salem, ass. © During the eight years he man-

z 2 aged stores in Salem and in Port- § land, Me., Mr. Morgan's unusua merchandising ability came to the g attention of the company officials S and in 1920 he was made a superintendent in one of the districts. His promotions came fast. Four years later he was brought into :

fixtures and five years after that = was promoted to manager of construction and store equipment. Z Eighteen years ago he was § oved up to the position he now § olds, manager of the stores in = His office =

in Detroit.

Store Operates |

Merchandise ‘May Be Paid for at Leisure ©

cost merchandise through cash & sales, one does not usually think = of Kresge's in connection with: the = layaway pian. However, with developmen* of Kresge stores and ithe addition of wearing apparel

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the Detroit office as buyer ofi@ _ . __ .

To obtain the glistening glass- dred pattern applied She : like surface of finished dinner- second baking with a “decalcomre, the baked wire is sprayed ania” transfer — & decal very th a glaze solution and placed similar to those children | % in another kiln for 24 hours ‘on books and pencil

Clqy fram Kentucky, Tennes| pon fed into a machine see, Georgla and North Carolina.iforces it out through tubes in 3 ‘from Maine and flinttoothpaste fashion, From these country, Here was In-ienom Jilinols are mixed to make ribbons of clay a machine me-|W. first continuous “tun-the glistening plates, bowls, thodically stamps out cups, plates, pottery industry.'cregmers, pitchers and cups that'saucers and bowls:

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Cook Bros., Inc., our plumbing

contractors, installed miles of

unseen pipe and the sparkling

fixtures that you'll find placed strategically all over Kresge's. Just like everything

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“else Here, these comforts are for you to enjoy the newest shopping adventure in

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Employee Recalls Opening : Of Original Kresge Store

, - all the traffic! “started his training denly finding that a X ‘and wonien from Kresge stores in ‘the Kresge store at lights had been removed from & in gurrounding areas who have , Nl, was later pro- g Lmoted to the Kresge store at| There was a famous quotation ing merchandise, came to Indian-| Loutsville, ‘and was first among employees: “If ' con i choice for a Indianapolis a liberal education in tactful sell- in the new store and help train

iand household items to the lines of merchandise carried in the {earlier “dime” stores, many of (the large new Kresge stores, in-

| cluding the one here, have inaug2 3 E = :

For the hurried shopper who does not want to take time to sit down to eat, there is a root beer and frozen custard stand-up refreshment bar at the front of the first floor salesroom on the east wall, Here soft drinks and light refreshménts may be obtained. Also on the main floor at the rear of the salesroom is a “doughnut department” where an automatic machine turns. out fresh

“FIRST WITH THE Se ~ We Asked : te i ARKETEX CERAMIC CORP.

(Glazed Tile Sales, Inc.) 108 E. WASHINGTON ST.

TO FURNISH OUR CERAMIC GLAZED TILE Although it's more or less like hiding our candle “under a bushel”... But we must tell folks about our spotless

kitchen .. .. It’s bright, sparkling, clean though it can’t be = seen. ... Thanks to Arketex Ceramic tile.

urated a layaway plan for their customers. While continuing to pass on to customers the savings invglyed = in selling merchandise for cash, the layaway: plan permits them to deposit a small sum on large items for which théy do not have

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J. P. Michael Co.

the balance. : A woman customer may decide Will Be Served at the LUNCHEONETTE COUNTERS

upon two $10 lamps she wants = AT YOUR NEW

{for her living room, but does not KRES G KE @ h

{have $20 left in her budget to = pay for them. The layaway plan Ee .

allows her to place a small deposit on: the lamps and pay the balance in several payments. At the same time she benefits from

business.

Kresge Display Takes Time, Work

Each towel and each dishpan = fits so naturally into its place in 1

the general store display that it is § difficult to. realize how many = weeks of work and how .many. conferences went into the plan- © ning and preparation of the gen-/ eral display and the trim for the three salesfldors of this new

production methods and-served our store with top quality ducts and registers in ating | duct

Kresge store. - . z i 5 : . i . y-_. Working from blue prints of the rier : gel Miss: Clara Wente |store, the company's display de-: : \ : ; A : % . ; thee 15 F505. Gas runties were|PATUmENt, with offices in Detroit, L = i | there In . A {months ago began laying out ten- : ® i SE : Ly ' - “ee : ar |soon added, she says, and those tative plans for the over-all theme 621 E. Ohio Street % = . gr were the days of bathtub-size dish ,¢ the salesroom “trim” and de- en . : : 'pans for ten cents. Coal buckets tgjled decorations of windows and : were also a fast-selling item. _|counters. This was followed by! Z 3 | eT Dale I ly et B { 5 } saleg- . i } ol Sebastian 8. Kresge, founder of | .ooma. | , . . . + 1 erience and im roved the company, was not only pres-| 1, G. Cunhingham and Harry § rh Put all their know-how of established manufacturing experience and improve ent for the opening of that first pnge) from Kresge's display.de-g— f reper "IAATANAPOTISH store, But RIMSeIf|nsriment arrived in Indianapolis|s assisted in setting up some Of several days ago to supervise the & |the store displays. |actual decoration or “trim” of § In helping Mr. Pierce prepare the shop windows and salesrooms S | the modern new store for {its according to the detailed plans § {opening - tomorrow, Miss Wente drawn up In the Detroit office. . |has concentrated on the electric Store's Display Man | department for it was in this de-| Working with them has been & -

connection with the ventilating" system of our new store, 2200 feet of metal

work was installed,

{for so many years. At the time here as the store’s display man. 3 v Va, § :

; {new store, \ In describing Miss Wente, one The basic counter displays were = {sald, “If she was off the. floor| oe Top 1. aide the direction : {for some reason it was like sud- , .. q.0¢ of this territory. Men &

busy street.” ‘had wide experience in display-

: “If you want apolis to help lay out the counters ing; work with Miss Wenta.”