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are not in truth drug stores. They . are really merchandise stores/*Charles F. Tuppen of the Hunter, Tuppen companjt, admitted that the drug1 department of his store might be affected, but he ttaa ready for what might come in the way of competition.As a matter of fact it doesn’t make any difference to- us whether the stores are under one management or separately owned/* said Mr. Tuppen. With ah the capital they have behind them and the immense purchasing power that it gives them they cannot buy'any cheaper than we can, and.I’m certain that they will not undersell us no matter what happens.'‘Of course, what we handle in the drug^ line is exactly what they emphasize in their business. . But if St came to a price cutting war between us we should not be worried. We have forty-three departments here and if we man t make a cent on one alone we could still do business and would have an advantage over them for that which js a department with us is an entire i business with them. Then, too, the \ combination stores have their own product to sell or rather their own J brand of a certain line of goods. We carry any line and if a customer wants 1 it the customer gets it without the salesman trying to sell the* .customer ; something that he or she hasn’t asked for.” „ . 1R. A. Weld of the Weld-Dalton stores, who since the1 change becomes the resident manager of the Liggett company, was quick to assure a Herald reporter that no monopoly of the drug j business was sought by the combina- . lion here.After Chain of Stores. ('‘Primarily we are looking to the ^ establishment of a chain . or retail * depots for the sale of our own goods,” ] he said. “By this I-don’t mean to say 1 that we are not after all the business -that we can get. But we are only after lt;the downtown business. In cities where , the United Prng company has well ] established agents • handling • their \ goods titey'- do |iiot go In. with retail stores^® -for example in Bochester.t' j : Wsot storea now, o* we ’wi-U i
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Syracuse Herald
Syracuse, New York, US
Fri, Nov 10, 1911
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