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CLEANLINESS ESSENTIAL
TO SUCCESSFUL O PER ATIN G
By LO U IS E. W O L F , Reliable Peanut Company.
During the twenty-three years I
have been affiliated with the vending
machine industry, I believe I have
some ideas that should be o f some
use to operators and possibly manu
facturers.
Just a few hints to the “ Starter
Operator”
in selecting locations.
First you must decide on the kind o f
machine that is best adapted to the
district you contemplate working
then the make o f said machine and
its merits pro and con. Then the
kind o f locations selected, such as
drug, candy, stationery, shoe, gro
cery, butcher and bakery stores, pool
parlors, restaurants and barber shops,
etc. Now the kind o f merchandise
that will best sell in the selected lo
cation, then the amount o f wares (fo r
the money) to vend and the commis
sion allowed the merchant.
But by far the two most important
“ Helps” in my experience and two
that will over shadow all that can be
mentioned is cleanliness and quality.
I will dwell briefly on the former.
W e all know the meaning o f “ To
be Clean.”
A pply it to your machines, keep
them clean inside and out. It takes
only a few more seconds and a few
strokes with a clean cloth to do the
trick and if need be, replace the ma
chine with one of the clean extras
that you must carry with you.
This idea of cleanliness cannot be
brought too vividly before the oper
ator for many a time, with my expe
rience, I have been forced to look
twice and hard at machines to recog
nize their contents just fo r the dirt.
This state o f affairs should not exist
and steps should be taken to impress
the operator that a clean machine is
an asset, where as the dirty machine
is a short cut to all kinds o f trouble.
Mr. Operator: you are buying a
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new collar in your village store, if
it is soiled, will you take it? N o!
You go to the same store later— say
fo r something else and you find the
same condition existing— you will
say, I am not going to trade with
that fellow any longer. His goods
are not clean, Mr. Operator; what is
the public (your daily trade) saying
about your unclean machines?
I dare say Mr. Operator if you
would but think one minute when
filling your machines; would I be
willing to have my nearest kin eat
from my machines; then all your ma
chines would be celan.
Don’t take the attitude that any
thing is good enough fo r the “ Kids”
fo r they are your best customers.
Give them clean merchandise in clean
machines and have a clean con
science, then you will not have to
complain that your sales are falling
off, and that you want to sell your
route because o f poor business— don’t
sell— its a good cash business.
Just Fits In
A U T O M A T IC A G E :
Pardon my neglect in not receiving
my subscription to A U T O M A T IC
AGE on time.
This book fits into our business so
naturally, that I guess I took it as a
matter o f course. It certainly is a
“ fixed” part o f the machine game.
Yours fo r Success,
Wm. J. Vandercar, Successor to:
V A N P A R V E N D IN G CO,
6 So. Canvass St.,
Cohoes, N. Y.
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killing her turkeys, an Oregon woman
procured a rifle and shot forty-fou r
o f the reptiles.
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