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BULLETIN" 1411, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Table 14.— Differentials in five store types in -price spread per car for each com- 
modity, New York metropolitan area, February, 1923, to May, 1924- 
Differential per car 
Types of store operation compared 
North- 
ern 
pota- 
toes 
Cali- 
fornia 
oranges 
Sweet 
pota- 
toes 
Boxed 
apples 
Bar- 
reled 
apples 
East- 
ern 
lettuce 
Yellow 
onions 
Weighted 
mean 
for seven 
com- 
modities 
management: chain stores with 
unit stoees 
Gross chain-store decrease below 
$405 
390 
45 
65 
-20 
$595 
115 
650 
375 
275 
$550 
140 
520 
175 
345 
$565 
330 
345 
240 
105 
$390 
260 
215 
165 
50 
$245 
190 
105 
145 
-40 
$230 
70 
225 
100 
125 
$425 
Net chain-store decrease below cash- 
255 
SERVICE: DIFFERENT UNIT-STORE 
TYPES 
Cash-carry decrease below credit- 
250 
C ash-delivery decrease below credit- 
170 
C ash-carry decrease below cash- 
delivery 
80 
DIFFERENTIALS SHOWING CONTRASTS IN PRICES TO CONSUMERS 
Contrasts of the various store types in prices to the individual 
consumer are shown by differences in their selling prices. These 
contrasts are expressed as differentials in value of the standard 
retail sale. The value for each of the seven commodities in each 
of the five store types is given in Table 15, with the weighted mean 
for the series, as computed from the classified retail price data and 
from the size-of-sale data. The values are thus uncompensated 
for adjustments in wholesale price differences. 
Table 15. — Value of standard retail sale, 1 New York metropolitan area, February , 
1923, to May, 1924 
Commodity 
Chain 
stores 
All unit 
stores 
Cash- 
carry 
stores 
Cash- 
delivery 
stores 
Credit- 
delivery 
stores 
Cents 
19.9 
23.8 
16.5 
19.5 
19.1 
18.4 
20.4 
Cents 
27.7 
28.1 
25.9 
25.4 
24.6 
23.4 
23.5 
Cents 
26.0 
24.2 
18.2 
22.9 
22.1 
22.8 
21.2 
Cents 
27.4 
26.3 
23.8 
24.3 
23.7 
22.1 
23.4 
Cents 
28.2 
California oranges 
29.7 
27.6 
Boxed apples ... ....... 
26.4 
Barreled apples . .. . . 
25.8 
Eastern lettuce . 
24.6 
24.4 
Weighted mean . 
20.2 
25.9 
23.3 
24.9 
27.0 
1 Unadjusted for wholesale price differences. 
Differentials in the value of the retail sale for the various store 
types, when the retail prices are compensated for the wholesale 
differences noted above, are synonymous with the original differ- 
entials in price spread per retail sale. For convenience in computa- 
tion, therefore, the original price spreads per car were employed here. 
By dividing the per car figure by the computed average number of 
