Identifier: cangrocerjanmar1919toro (find matches)
Title: Canadian grocer January-March 1919
Year: 1919 (1910s)
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Subjects: Supermarkets Grocery trade Food industry and trade
Publisher: Toronto : Maclean-Hunter Pub. Co. (1887)-
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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oronto totheir Ontario friends. A Window Contest for Clerks CANADIAN GROCER is offering another Window Dressing Contest, open to GroceryClerks everywhere, and it is hoped that this contest will prove of very unusual interestand will be entered into heartily. The windows will be judged on the following basis: THE BASIS OF JUDGMENT 1. The novelty of the window display and its unusual appeal in featuring certainlines of seasonable goods. 2. The selling value of the window as demonstrated in actual sales. The only restrictions are that the goods displayed shall be seasonable, with the con-testant left free to demonstrate the seasonableness of apparently unseasonable linesif he sees fit, and that in the case of branded lines the window shall not contain thegoods of one manufacturer only. The contest will close April 5. The Prizes: 1st - - - - - - - $10.00 2nd 5.00 3rd - - 3.00 All displays not winning a prize, but suitable for reproduction, will be purchased at$1.00 each. 10 March 7, 1919.
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A view of the A. G. Bain & Co. store. Hamilton. A demonstration of the fact that although Hamilton market is recognized as one of the finest fruit markets in Canada, it does not destroy that business for the retail merchant. Selling 1,200 Loaves of Bread a Week A Hamilton Store Makes Bread a Leader—Has Its Own Confectionery Department That is One of the Important Factors in the Store—Departmentizing as it is Done in the F. A. Nixon Store THAT anyone could sell 1,200 loavesof bread a week, and make a goodprofit on the transaction, wouldsurprise a good many retailers, who gen-erally look upon bread sales as rather abugbear. The fact remains, however,that it can be done, and F. A. Nixon, ofBarton street, Hamilton, is the man whodoes it. Of course, he does not do it inexactly the usual way. He is able to doit because he bakes the bread himself,and at the same time he bakes a fullconfectionery line. Mr. Nixon does notlook upon bread as many merchants do.To him it is a big drawing c

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