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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 17, 1918)
u ye? 'X r 4 4i THE OMAHA SUNDAY REE: MARCH 17. 1018. a A "v1 TOES A Wonderful Story of 10 Years' Growth, Our; Great Record: 1908 1 ttor 1910 7 ttoret Sales $175,936.00 1911 8 ttorai Sale $267,100.00 1912 8 stores Sales $394,193.92 1913 12 stores Sales $532,842. OS 1914 18 stores Sales $ 837,497.23 1915 30 stores Sales $1,350,852.52 1916 40 stores Sales $1,870,141.34 1917 40 stores Sales $2,143,080.95 U. S. Food AdmloUtratlon License No, G-2S403. The Chain Store Cash and Carry Grocery Plan we believe Is the coming method of distribution. It is fundamentally sound. We began ten years ago with one store. Today we operate forty-four stores in Omaha, Lincoln, and surrounding territory. 1 Buying large quantities of merchandise direct from the producer, packed un der our own label, we eliminate middlemen's profits. Our Buyers Are Instructed to Consider Quality First trying to raise her salary by re ducing the cost of the articles that she has to buy. We Help You Fight Old H. C. of L. We are planning within the near future to arrange for a modern warehouse, a modern bakery and a cold storage plant. These will further elim inate waste and expense in bringing our products direct to you from the producer. We are proud of our growth the past ten years. If you treat us as well in the future as you have in the past, the Basket Stores are bound to become a greater factor than ever in re ducing the cost of living to the consumer. tv. i;., .... i , has the following expense delivery cost, 20 ; charge ac counts, bad debts, collections and bookkeeping, 10. The Cash and Carry Plan saves you all this expense. Hundreds of our patrons have volunteered the informa tion that they saved 20 cents on every dollar's worth of merchandise purchased from the Basket Stores. On this basis, we saved to the patrons of our stores during the year 1917, $535,750.00. We insist upon our managers keeping fresh stocks with a quick turn-over. The ordinary grocer turns his stock about seven times a year last year "CASH AND CARRY" Certainly Means a Saving to y the Careful Buyer. we turned our stock nearly thirteen times. Every price in a Basket Store is plainly marked you pay the same as your neighbor. No special sales, no leaders. Our Plans for the Future We intend to1 open many new stores". The saving from , our in creased quantity buying will be passed along to our patrons. The housewife, the greatest buyer on the face of the earth, has been hit hardest by the High Cost of Living. We are We take this method of expressing our sincere appreciation of the splendid support given us in the past 10 years. BASKET STORES COMPANY . 4 ' arJi' Wr'? 'r,' liMM m ill L t is 8 mi mi "4 i 'fj.r fit- 3j t i a -j . i ,1L IP 7 B Hi O E or 4t 1 it SV 1 4 ft a S3 7 S 4, r l it- is - 'V " i ml i V