METHODS AXD PRACTICES OF RETAILING MEAT 6 
therefore, usually are located on main thoroughfares, preferably on 
street-car lines in down-town business districts and at transfer points. 
The service stores do not depend to the same extent upon location for 
drawing trade but rely to a great degree upon the services of deliv- 
ery and credit to attract trade. These stores are therefore found in 
residential or semibusiness districts where rents are lower. 
TYPES OF STORES 
Types of stores include the neighborhood store and the public 
market, the cash-and-carry single store, cash-and-carry local chain 
store, and cash-and-carry national chain store. Some of the latter 
perform a delivery service, but in such cases a separate charge is 
usually made for delivery. Isolated cases were found where delivery 
service was included with the price of meats. In such cases cus- 
tomers desiring delivery service paid slightly higher prices. Stores 
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Meat and groceries \ '' \ Meat, groceries and miscellaneous 
Fig. 2.— Percentage grouping of the different types of retail stores according to products handled. 
In the delivery group 58 per cent handled meats and other food products, whereas in the cash- 
and-carry group 71 per cent handled meats only. In the chain systems approximately 50 per 
cent handled meats only; the other .50 per cent handled meats and other food products 
of this type are classified as cash-and-delivery and are only a minor 
factor in retail meat distribution. 
In all cities there had been a marked increase in the number of 
cash-and-carry meat markets during the last 10 years. Many of 
these are local chain systems, comprising 3 to 15 units, and a large 
percentage are individual or single markets whose owners were for- 
merly operators of credit-and-delivery markets. Economies brought 
about by changes in buying habits of consumers, losses resulting 
from credit accounts, and greater competition of large retail operators 
which practically forced many credit-and-delivery markets to change 
their methods, were given as reasons for the change. 
CREDIT-AND-DELIVERY OR SERVICE STORES 
Service stores are usually the type of retail market often referred 
to as the " corner grocery." The larger number are of the combina- 
tion type and handle meats, groceries, fruits, and vegetables, but 
