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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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