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stationery, l sold toilet articles, 1 sold
°ys and games, and 1 sold “Miscellaneous.”
(No candy stores sold hay, grain, feed,
uilding materials, heating fuels, rubber
res and tubes, nor gasoline and lubricating
oils.)
per cent. Retail confectioners had an ex
pense ratio of 33.66 per cent, with rent
constituting a much more important item,
relatively, than in the wholesale establish
ment. The ratio of rent to sales for re
tailers was 8.03 per cent. The 54 ice cream
Wholesale sales of candy, confectionery, parlors reported sales of $296,588, with an
beverages and ice cream in Louisville
expense ratio of 41.13 per cent.”
An interesting detail of the report is a
amounted to $1,546,806,” according to a
rief summary of the confectionery picture
chart of retail sales per person engaged
deluded with the various tables; “Sales in candy stores. This shows an annual
° wholesalers consisted of candy, $1,218,- average in stores selling less than $5,000
}67; carbonated beverages, $134,277; chew- annually of $1,853; in stores selling
lng gum, $56,895; with ice cream and between $5,000 and $10,000 of $2,763; in
nuscellaneous making up the remainder,
stores selling from $10,000 to $25,000
okers’ transactions in candy were rela-
annually, of $4,380; in stores selling from
$25,000 to $50,000, average sales per person
ely unimportant, reported sales amount-
lnJ to only $15,000.
employed were $4,715; and in stores selling
Retail sales as reported separately for more than $50,000, the average sales person
nay an(j confec|;jonery> jce cream an(j
were $3,716.
Sell Most Ice Cream
drinks are approximately equal
amounts, namely, candy $1,457,055; ice
Of all food and grocery products there
0 2 5 ^’ $1*^72,246; and soft drinks, $1,420,- were found to be only two for which
grocery stores were not first or second in
The principal retail outlet for this group rank as an outlet. These were meals and
commodities was grocery stores, which ice cream. Restaurants sold 70 per of all
eported total sales of all three commodity meals and lunches, followed by hotels,
^asses of $1*031,470, or 24.27 per cent of with 16.2 per cent. Drug stores were the
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Sales of these commodities principal outlets for ice cream, selling
°ugh candy and confectionery stores 35.9 per cent of the total, with candy and
confectionery stores next, selling 19.4 per
R u n t e d to $982,383.
cent. Total sales of candy and other con
andy and confectionery dealers in
°Ulsv^le included 14 wholesalers and 143 fections in grocery stores was $1,457,055,
with average sales per store of $462, which
^ ail stores. Outlets, however, are much
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numerous than is indicated by the was 32.1 per cent of the candy and confec
th
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sPecialized establishments. Of tions sold in the market during 1928.
? 2,972 retail outlets surveyed, 1,676 Candy stores and other leading outlets for
candy, 1 515 g0ft drinks and 728 ice confectionery accounted for 35.3 per cent
cream.
of the total, with average annual sales of
$3,836.
"Th ^ ° St Sales in a Few Stores
Confectionery and soft drink wholesalers
,
® wholesale candy and confectionery
g 9 „a ^shments showed average sales of were found to go outside of their own field
six ’ 6’ and retail dealers $10,977. Ninety- in sales, but chiefly in selling malt prod
alj stores, each selling under $5,000 annu- ucts and eggs. Their exact percentage of
* rePorted total sales of $231,668, their sales concentrated in their own field
Among all
re 1 e e*£ht stores in the ‘over $50,000 class’ was found to be 76.09.
Ported total sales nearly four times as products sold at wholesale, candy and con
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a ’ or $876,985. The average inven- fectionery was found to be tenth in order,
■ret'6? ^or wholesalers was $14,228, while with a total of $1,203,167.
$ 67 ^ GrS carr*ed an average stock of only
a * The proportion of sales made on
basis is likewise much greater
per Wllolesale establishments, being 51.53 A u t o m a t ic A g e :
Cent for wholesalers and 3.59 per cent
In reading the April number, I noticed
tot retailers.
an article concerning pencil venders. Please
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exPense ratio for wholesalers was furnish me with the name of the manufac
pe
^er cent, salaries making up 11.96 turer, as I want to place them in schools.
r cen^ ° f this total and rent only 1.11
L. L., Dallas, Texas.
Venders For Schools
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