A clerk coming home after a vacation can sell goods, even in dull times.

More and more employers are coming to appreciate the money value of the Saturday half-holiday in summer.

Hearn, in New York, closes his department store all day Saturday during July and August.

The store sells more goods in five days than it previously sold in six.
THE FILENE SYSTEM OF DEVELOPING EFFICIENT WORKERS There is one department store which has demonstrated that it is profitable to pay higher wages than its competitors, and that it pays to allow the employees to fix the terms of their own employment.

This is the Filene store in Boston, which has developed within the past ten years from a conservative, old-fashioned dry-goods business into an extremely original and interesting experiment station in commercial economics.
The entire policy of the Filene management is bent on developing to the highest possible point the efficiency of each individual clerk.