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plan. Each of these departments had one clerk. Besides these there 
were 8 employees, consisting of the manager, cashier, 2 checkers, 1 
clerk in charge of the parcel-checking room where customers were 
required to check all parcels they brought into the store before being 
allowed to make their purchases, 1 clerk putting up package goods, 
1 stock clerk, and 1 information clerk. All of these clerks were 
women, with the exception of the manager, who was also the pro- 
prietor. 
(4) The store's sales averaged $700 per day for the first five days 
of the week and were $2,200 on Saturday, making the week's total 
$5,700. This volume was handled bv onlv 4 men throughout the week. 
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Fig. 14. — Exit in large self-serve store. At the counter the customers' selections are 
checked, paid for, and wrapped. 
This exceptional showing was made only through a very efficient 
organization. Three exits were used, with only one clerk at each. 
If the customers in the store were of sufficient number to require only 
one exit in operation the other two were closed and the clerks imme- 
diately went back to work on the stock. Thus the number of exits 
used was varied with the number of customers in the store, thereby 
utilizing the full time of all the employees. Of couse, each Saturday 
night the stock was much depleted and the most of the work for the 
first five days of the next week consisted of restocking the shelves for 
the next Saturday. 
(5) The store's sales were $8,000 for the week. There were 12 
employees, consisting of 3 men and a boy keeping the stock up, 2 
