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Title: Canadian grocer July-December 1908
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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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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o have a perfect right to do. TheElliott Home, almost in connection withthe hospital, and controlled also bynearly the same board of directors, whoare all clever, level-headed business men,spent last year about $600, also makinganother nice little account worth look-ing after, and could be divided up in thesame way. As I understand it, at pres-ent there is a ttodency to cut prices,which is not at all necessary, as thegrocers should arrange to have a uniformprice themselves to protect each other. Much sympathy is expressed for Chas.Barber, manager of OMaras, in the lossof $77 out of his till on Saturday morn-ing. The store was left unguarded fora few minutes while the staff were un-loading a shipment of meat from Palm-erston. Grocers and others will do wellto remember never to leave the store,not even to go down cellar, withoutsome responsible person in charge. The special number of The Grocer re-ceived a large number of bouquets fromthe grocers here. November 2.—Alderman R. Simpson,
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VANCOUVER PURE FOOD SHOW-Exhibit of the Western Canada Flour Mills.40 iHE CANADIAN GROCER of the R. & J. Simpson Co., wholesalegrocers, has a motion to bring beforethe council to-night to have all the side-walks cleaned of snow by a snowploughrun by the city. Some of those fellowswho live on corner lots will surely nowcalL him Blessed Bob.. Tea at $4 per pound is the latest andalso the highest priced tea we rememberof ever seeing advertised in Guelph.Geo. Williams is the lucky man to havenerve enough to tempt the taste of theconnoisseurs of tea in this city. He hadit advertised all week and no doubt soldsome of it in small lots, 25c an ounce,and that makes 25 cups of tea. Doesnot seem so expensive after all, andmakes a splendid advertisement, as veryfew people outside of the trade everheard of such high-priced tea. The gen-eral prices of tea sold in Guelph storesrun from 25c to 50c, with the 40c linethe best seller. Halloween passed ofi very quietly inthis city and as usual the sn

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