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BULLETIN 682, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



purposes of this study because they sell approximately equal quanti- 

 ties of butter, and the terms of sales in each case are cash. Neither 

 the fruit nor the dairy stores make deliveries. (See Table 5, p. 19.) 



HOTELS. CLUBS, AND RESTAURANTS. 



Clubs, hotels, and restaurants are not retailers of butter, but rec- 

 ords of i)urchases of this class of " wholesale consumers " of butter 

 were obtained for purposes of comparison with those of retailers. 

 The quality of the butter purchased by New York and Philadel- 

 phia restaurateurs was comparatively much better than that pur- 

 chased by those of Chicago, Minneapolis, and St. Paul. Some well- 

 known hostelries were able to buy at relatively low prices because of 

 the advertising value of their patronage to the jobber. (See Table 

 5, p. 19.) 



Table 6. — Proportionate sales of butter and oleomargarine in relation to aver- 

 age cost prices and margins of gross profit of retailers and Jiotels, etc. 



15 REPRESENTATIVE MUNICIPAL MARKET STAND RETAILERS IN NEW YORK AND 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Commodity sold. 



Weekly 

 sales.i 



Per cent 

 of total 

 weekly 

 sales. 



Average 



cost 

 price. 2 



Retailers' 

 gross 

 profit. 



Common creamery butter sold in bulk 



Pounds. 



1,043 



742 



533 



Per cent. 

 45 

 32 

 23 



Cents. 

 1.5 

 4.2 

 16.0 



Cents. 

 6 13 



Common creamery butter sold in trade-marked cartons 



Special quality brands sold in cartons 



7.96 

 5 13 







Total for all creamery butter 



2,318 



100 



13.2 



6 4 







Process butter 





 





 







Oleomargarine 













no REPRESENTATIVE DELICATESSEN STORES IN NEW YORK, PHII 

 CAGO, ST. PAUL, AND MINNEAPOLIS. 



.ADELPI 



IIA, CHI- 



Common creamery butter sold from tubs 



26.5 

 45.6 

 8.3 



32 

 55 

 10 



3. : 



6.0 

 14.0 



3.0 





4 7 



Special quality brands sold in cartons 



5 







Total for all creamery butter 



80.4 



97 



7.9 



4.2 









.8 

 1.6 



1 



2 



- 2.0 

 -13.7 



3 2 



Oleomargarine 



7 5 







165 REPRESENTATIVE GROCERY STORES IN NEW YORK, PHILADEI 

 ST. PAUL, AND MINNEAPOLIS. 



.PHIA, C 



HICAGO, 



Common creamery butter sold in bulk 



126 

 214 



8 



33 

 56 

 2 



2.2 



4.0 



20.0 



3.6 



Common creamery butter sold in trade-marked cartons 



Special quality brands sold in cartons 



5.4 

 6.9 







Total for all creamery butter 



348 



91 



8.7 



5.3 









4 

 30 



1 

 8 



- 7.0 

 -10.5 



6.9 





4.9 







1 Average per retailer. 



2 Prices are expressed in margins of differences between cost prices of all grades of butter and oleomargar- 

 ine and the highest New York quotations for Extras on the date of purchase. Proper allowance for trans* 

 portation costs were made in cases of purchases in Chicago, St. Paul, and Minneapolis. 



