Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)

is very small compared to the total con-
sumption of cigarettes. There is only one
reason for the small cigarette machine sales
and that is cut-rate competition. When the
machines sell at the same price as the chain
store the machine will be given preference
for a purchase can be made in much less
time and without the purchaser subjecting
himself to a sales talk on dozens of sundry
items the chains try to pawn off on one
before delivering the i tern you've asked for.
Operators should instruct all their loca-
tions to call their customers' attention that
the machine is selling cigarettes at chain
store prices. Conspicuous signs prominent-
ly displayed on the mirrors of all machines
should show the 15c price, tax included.
Dime cigarettes must be sold for 12c
either by chains or machines. Location
commissions remain the same as in the
past. These brands will drop in sales in
favor of the 15c brands becaus" the price
differential has been reduced. Dime smok-
ers formerly saved a nickel on a pack, but
at 12c for the cheap cigarettes many of
them will drop their 15c and take the
higher priced brands because they have to
deposit 15c in the machine anyway to get
the cheaper cigarettes. The three pennies
change they'll get matters little because
there is a natural tendency to rid oneself of
the coppers anyway.
The net result is, that instead of causing
confusion and a loss in sales because of the
tax, sales and profits will be greater to the
operator, and the same, if not greater, to
the location, IF the 15c price is maintained
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on all cigarette machines.
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Wife-"What makes you think we are
getting near a big city, dear?"
Motorist (doing 70) - "We're hitting
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There's a new setup at the Cigarette
Merchandisers' Association. Bob Haw-
thorne is president, Aaron Gosch, vice-presi-
dent; and Sam Yollen, treasurer. Matthew
Forbes continues as managing director.
Lester Paul, for more than nine years
with Stewart & McGuire, has made a switch
and now is with Arthur H. De Grenier.
Jimmy Darcy of Brooklyn Amusement
has walked the plank. He recently married
that best girl folks said he parked around.
Add to the Automatic Music Operators'
Association, Ben Chicofsky, Embee Auto
Phonograph Company of Brooklyn, New
York. Ben said he got lonely for the crowd
and a taste of "Sweet Adeline".
Get out that old tux and those collar
buttons for the AMOAO has raised the flag
again and this time it's going to be a big
evening at the Waldorf Astoria, Starlight
Roof, November 5th.
Word comes to your reporter that Joe
Fishman and Marvin Leibowitz of the pin-
ball crowd have tied up as Rock-Ola distri-
butors. Best luck to the boys for they know
the ropes and operators from a to z.
Fishman has been distributing before and
needs no introduction in telling his story.
Thoughts written on my cuff: How's
Martin Berger feel sitting on the sidelines
now? . . . What's Sam (Commodore) Yol-
len going to do if they start sending the
subs over? ... Mike Levy has his passport
handy for trekking over from New Ro-
chelle? . . . Anybody ever christen Bob
Hawthorne "Gentleman Bob"? . . . Don't
get a peep from Jackson Bloom all evening.
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. . . Looks like Bill Fraser and Schwartz
are bosom pals.
Harry Van Opstall of the AMOA has
been laid low by the strepticocci. Harry
says it happened when he wasn't looking.
An attempt to fight the New York State
Occupancy Act which hangs one on the
chin for the coin machine crowd was noted
in the gathering called by the Nation-
al Automa tic Merchandising Association
which discussed ways and means to test
the constitutionality of this law in the very
near future.
It has been estimated that of all the
cigarette machines operated in the New
York territory, CMA members control 85%
of them. The remaining 15% are in the
hands of independents and maybe they're
worrying about rules and regulations!
Increasing raids on candy and gum
machines present an acute problem for the .
machine trade. The work, mostly of mis-
chievous youngsters who look upon the of-
fense as a prank, seems difficult to stop.
Cigarette operators definitely look for-
ward to cancellation of the city tax on cig-
arettes pointing out the disastrous effect the
tax has had on machine sales and the in-
creasing nuisance of cigarette smuggling
from New Jersey and neighboring states.
The end of the year is given as the time
when the tax will be repealed.
Now the second World War has started
the coin machine crowd wants to know how
it might affect production. Many plants are
geared for war production and should the
U. S. be drawn into the conflict they see a
premium on late models. At the moment,
prices are stiffening and some of the fac-
tories are not overanxious to sell. They say
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the jobbers are holding fas t, too.
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"You must be brave to come down in
a parachute in a !OD-mile gale like this."
"I didn't come down in a parachute.
I went up in a tent]"
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Teacher: "Tommy, can you spell 'fur'?"
Tommy: "Y es-f-u-r, fur."
Teacher: "Correct. Now, tell me what
fur is."
Tommy: "Fur is an awful long ways
off."
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