Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1917 — SHOULD AID DIRECT BUYERS [ARTICLE]

SHOULD AID DIRECT BUYERS

Plan of Charging Less to Man Who Asks No Delivery. “There ought to be a law by which the customer who goes to a retail store, pays cash for goods and carries his purcase away, should get such purchases at least 20 per cent cheaper than those who have their goods delivered,” declared James S. Crutchfield, a wholesale produce dealer, at the final public food meeting in the Chamber of Commerce rooms. “I don’t if such a law would be constitutional,’ Mr. Crutchfield continued, “but I do know that the customer pays at least that increase in the price of purchases because of the expense the retailer has in the delivery of goods and conduct of his credit system. The average dealer will deny that this statement is true, but it is nevertheless. My contention is that he customer only gets 80 cents in value for his dollar, because of the credit and delivery system.” —Pittsburg Dispatch. -