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CHICAGO, AU G U ST, 1928
No. 1
Autosales Corporation Opens
Automatic Store Number One
The first automatic store in the
■world
was opened
,
* ------ on Juy 4th, by
e Autosales Corporation. This was
utosaleshop No. 1 located on W est
th Street, Coney Island, N. Y . It
ls a fair sized confectionery shop and
contains over one hundred units sell-
Th
W ile’s biscuits, Planter’s nuts and
chocolate, W alter Baker’s 5c choco
late, American Chicle Company’s
gum, Heid’s nuts and chocolate, Life
Savers mints and fruit drops, etc.
Their policy is to make the Auto-
saleshop a unit o f a general chain
e first completely Automatic store, installed by Autosales Corporation,
at Coney Island, N. Y.
£ lc, 5c, 10c and 15c articles; 25c
nJts will be added later.
shop is divided into sections
°Mow: Biscuits, nuts assorted
Candies, Chewing gum and
!nts, prjze Packages, Cigarettes.
n. addition ther are a number o f
0r>ny cup machines fo r the drink
fountains.
All the articles sold are nationally
j* vertised and well known. The ar-
J? es being sold include National
scuit Company’s biscuits, Loose
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store system selling merchandise o f
all kinds automatically and catering
to a great extent to the neighbor
hood trade. Investigations are now
being carried on in other lines o f
merchandise and it is expected that
the Autosaleshops will truly present
a new mode o f merchandising as it
will cater to the buyer o f small pack
age goods, fo r which the demand is
admittedly large, rather than to the
buyer o f bulk goods.
The policy o f selling only merchan
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