"By our system, the manufacturer sold to the wholesaler, the wholesaler to the retailer, and the retailer to the consumer, and the goods had to be handled each time.

You avoid one handling of the goods, and eliminate the retailer altogether, with his big profit and the army of clerks it goes to support.

Why, Miss Leete, this store is merely the order department of a wholesale house, with no more than a wholesaler's complement of clerks.

Under our system of handling the goods, persuading the customer to buy them, cutting them off, and packing them, ten clerks would not do what one does here.

The saving must be enormous." "I suppose so," said Edith, "but of course we have never known any other way.