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Table 29. — Expenses and profits in meat departments of stores of chain systems 
classified by volume of sales, 1919 — Continued 
Chain No. 5.— Meats Only; Sales, $1,107,998.79 
Group by volume of saies 
Number 
of stores 
Gross 
margin 
Net 
profit 
Total 
expenses 
"Wages 
Expenses 
other 
than 
wages 
Not over $25,000 .- . - . 
Per cent 
Per cent 
Per cent 
Per cent 
Per cent 
$25,001 to $50,000 
$50,001 to $100,000 
5 
5 
16.78 
18.11 
-0.17 
4.57 
16.95 
13.54 
10.09 
7.53 
6.86 
$100,001 to $200,000 
6.01 
Over $200,000 
! 
"" 1 " 
Chain No. 5.— 
Meats Only; Sales, $1,838,709.44 
Not over $25,000 . 
$25,001 to $50,000 
$50,001 to $100,000 .. 
5 
11 
17.87 
17.74 
0.37 
2.69 
17.50 
15.05 
10.08 
9.27 
7.42 
$100,001 to $200,000 
5.78 
Chain No. 7 
—Meats Only; Sales, $2,635,785.03 
Not over $25,000 __. .... ... . . 
$25,001 to $50,000 
$50,001 to $100,000 _. 
4 
16 
16.88 
16.49 
3.04 
4.42 
13.84 
12.07 
8.47 
7.12 
5.37 
$100,001 to $200,000 
4.95 
Over $200,000 
Chain No. 8 
—Meats Only; Sales, 
$2,475,691.29 
Not over $25,000 
1 
$25,001 to $50,000 
_„. . . 
$50,001 to $100,000 
3 
13 
2 
16. 13 1 
16. 74 | 
20. 18 
3.21 
2.42 
6.74 
12.92 
14.32 
13.44 
6.34 
6.64 
6.76 
6.58 
$100,001 to $200,000. 
7.68 
Over $200,000 
6.68 
Note.— In chain systems 1, 2, 3, and 4 of this table, all the stores of the chain in each instance were located 
in the same city and were for the most part of small volume of sales. In such instances, if a large store has 
high operating expenses, it is usually because of its being conducted as the show store of the system. In 
systems 5, 6, 7, and 8. the stores were widely distributed, with merely a single market, usually of large size, 
in each city. Chain No. 3 differed from other chains handling both meats and groceries in selling its meats in 
that year on a margin almost as narrow as its groceries. It was also able to conduct its meat operations at a 
lower expense than other systems of stores of similar volume of sales. Chain No. 8 follows the policy of rapid 
sales with a minimum of service, thereby enabling it to conduct its operations at a wage expense unusually 
low. 
Table 30. — Comparison of total operating expenses and of salaries and wages by 
size of stores in chain systems 1 and individual markets, 1919 
[Percentages calculated on basis of sales as 100 per cent] 
All individual markets 
Eight carry chain 
systems 
Group of stores by volume of sales 
n ™- bsst 
SI01es penses 
1 
Total 
salaries 
and 
wages 
Operat- 
ing ex- 
penses 
exclud- 
ing de- 
livery 
expense 
Salaries 
and 
wages 
exclud- 
ing de- 
livery 
Num- 
ber of 
stores 
Operat- 
ing ex- 
penses 
Salaries 
and 
wages 
Not over $25,000 
24 
62 
71 
49 
24 
Per cent 
18.05 
17. 51 
15.78 
14.81 
12.09 
Per cent 
10.84 
11.16 
10.10 
8.70 
6.86 
Per cent 
16.12 
15.67 
14.16 
13.49 
10.41 
Per cent 
9.47 
9.89 
9.20 
8.14 
5.97 
7 
27 
45 
60 
Per cent 
16.12 
17.30 
15.87 
13.80 
Per cent 
10.20 
$25,001 to $50,000 
9.83 
$50,001 to $100,000.. . 
9.46 
Over $100,000 
7.78 
Stores with large restaurant trade 
1 Expenses of the chain-store branches include an apportionment of the general expenses of each chain 
system. 
