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    How Department Stores Are Carried On
    How Department Stores Are Carried On
    How Department Stores Are Carried On
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    How Department Stores Are Carried On

    By W. B. Phillips

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    The following work is a fascinating inside-look into how department stores operate in the beginning of the 20th century. The author, with years of experience working in a large department store and visiting other trade centers, has a thorough understanding of the systems and policies used in running these types of stores. They believe the public will benefit from a clear explanation of how department stores operate.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 20, 2019
    ISBN4064066144890
    How Department Stores Are Carried On

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      How Department Stores Are Carried On - W. B. Phillips

      W. B. Phillips

      How Department Stores Are Carried On

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066144890

      Table of Contents

      INTRODUCTION.

      General Principles.

      The Management.

      The System.

      Advertising.

      The Buying Organization.

      Receiving Goods.

      Taking Care of Stock.

      Serving Customers.

      Exchanging Goods.

      Floor Managers and Ushers.

      Making Out Checks, Etc.

      Inspecting, Checking and Parcelling Goods.

      Collecting Goods for Delivery.

      Delivering Goods.

      Stables.

      General Cash Office.

      Check Office, or Auditing Department.

      C. O. D. Business.

      The Mail-Order Business.

      Catalogues.

      Receiving and Opening Mail.

      Book-keeping, Buying, Checking, Etc.

      Assembling and Packing Mail-Order Goods.

      Goods Sent by Mail, Correspondence, Paying for Goods, Etc.

      Filing Correspondence.

      Special Orders.

      Returned Goods, Exchanges, and Complaints.

      Samples.

      Keeping Employees' Time.

      Employing Help.

      Paying Wages.

      Watchmen.

      General Rules for Employees.

      Mechanical Section.

      INTRODUCTION.

      Table of Contents

      No other branch of business can bear comparison with the wonderful results achieved by Department Stores, such a success as has made them the wonder of modern merchandising. These stores, that have grown to greatness from small beginnings, have a force and power behind them that commands general interest. Their store-keeping rests upon certain well-defined principles, and not upon chance, sensations or experiments.

      It is not the intention in this volume to prejudice public opinion against Department Stores. No attempt has been made to enumerate any reasons why they exist and flourish, nor any effort made to prove that they are a necessity, or otherwise.

      Whether they promote and build up the best interests of the people and country at large, or are detrimental to them, is a question on which intelligent opinion is largely divided.

      The fact remains—a plain indisputable fact—that they do exist; that they have had a tremendous growth in recent years, both in Europe and America; that organizations of this character beginning a few years ago have developed into the largest and most successful mercantile institutions in the world.

      The author, from several years' practical experience, having been closely identified with the policy adopted, and with all the detail of system employed, in running one of the largest Department Stores on this continent, having visited at different times the trade centers of America, and examined carefully into the systems employed in other stores of a similar character, and made careful comparisons, is satisfied that the enquiring public will appreciate the endeavor to give them an intelligent idea of How Department Stores are carried on.

      General Principles.

      Table of Contents

      One of the great underlying principles of Modern Department Stores is cash. Buying and selling for cash. Cash and one price. Some deviations are made from this rule, according to existing conditions in different business centers; but this is exceptional, the larger percentage of trade being strictly cash, and this fact has contributed largely to the general success.

      A few years ago nobody sold for cash. Nobody in those days marked the price on goods in plain figures and stuck to it. To-day this is done, and is acknowledged to be highly satisfactory.

      The first aim is to get the best and choicest goods direct from the makers; and, second, to have the lowest prices, thus enlarging the purchasing power of every dollar. A Department Store is different from the ordinary store, by being big enough to deal in almost everything that people need; handling merchandise of every class that goes well together for all sorts of people; providing the means of doing everything quickly, easily, cheaply.

      A store large enough to accommodate thousands of shoppers arranged to serve a purpose. Floor upon floor filled with merchandise, broad aisles, easy stairways, elevators to do the stair climbing, cash system for quick and easy change-making, with all the newest ideas in store mechanism; places to sit, wait, meet, lunch, talk and rest; in short, an ideal place to shop in. Everything done that can be done to study the convenience of customers and look after their interests. This constitutes one of the greatest factors in the success of modern retailing.

      Looking after the customer. Looking after them in such a manner that the service is an attraction in itself, that shopping is made easy and comfortable. Service is what these stores are for. Complete service in every detail, beginning with the purchase of the goods, and ending with delivery to customers, guaranteeing every article sold to be exactly as represented, or cheerfully refunding the money.

      The development of these great businesses is largely the product of better service, and this service has been effective in winning the favor of shoppers.

      The strength of these organizations, while centered in well-known principles strictly adhered to, is backed up by a well-defined system of government, including all departments, and the development of this system has had a great deal to do with the success of present-day business. The principles referred to build up and support the business, but it is the careful management and perfect system which controls.

      The Management.

      Table of Contents

      The central point around which the whole organization of Department Stores gather is the man, or men, who put up the capital; who own, control and manage the business; and who insist that the profits shall be consistent with their expectations. They not only put up the cash, but define the policy of the business, and organize and develop the system under which it operates. The organizing and executive ability, as well as the faculty of knowing men, must be largely displayed; knowing men, and how to combine them; knowing how to use their capabilities and energies, how to bring out all their qualifications and all

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