RETAIL MARKETING OF MEATS . 9 
were straight meat markets; 6.11 per cent chain stores that handled 
meats; 5.48 per cent stalls in public markets; and 0.20 per cent 
meat sections in department stores. (See Table 1.) There is a 
wide difference in the percentages of the various types of stores for 
particular cities. Portland, Oreg., and St. Paul, Minn., with 35 
per cent of their stores of the combination meat and grocery type and 
Lowell, Mass., with 98 per cent, illustrate extreme differences in 
prevalence of this type. In general, the North and West have a 
low percentage of combination meat and grocery stores and a rela- 
tively high percentage of straight meat markets, as compared with 
the East and South. 
Table 1. — Stores retailing fresh meats, classified by types and by service 
rendered 
[28 cities and 5 suburban municipalities completely canvassed: 1920] 
CO 
© 
o 
o 
B 
3 
a 
"3 
o 
Types of stores 
Service rendered 
City 
Combina- 
tion meat 
and gro- 
cery stores 
Straight 
meat 
markets 
Chain 
stores 
Stalls in 
public 
markets 
Meat 
sections 
in de- 
part- 
ment 
stores 
Cash 
and 
carry 
Service 
© 
B 
3 
a 
© 
© 
© 
Ph 
B 
3 
a 
© 
© 
© 
Ph 
© 
a 
3 
3 
© 
© 
Ph 
© 
a 
3 
3 
© 
© 
© 
a 
3 
a 
© 
© 
© 
Ph 
© 
a 
3 
3 
8 
u 
© 
Ph 
© 
a 
3 
3 
© 
© 
Ph 
Concord, N. H 
26 
9 
162 
218 
90 
648 
149 
10 
181 
10 
3 
82 
193 
118 
93 
20 
12 
23 
27 
26 
49 
30 
168 
13 
371 
19 
179 
575 
24 
9 
159 
190 
82 
248 
137 
3 
64 
2 
92.31 
100. 00 
98.15 
87.16 
91.11 
38.27 
91.95 
30.00 
35.36 
20.00 
1 
3.85 
1 
3.85 
4 
1 
10 
29 
25 
245 
8 
15.38 
11.11 
6.17 
13.30 
27.78 
37.81 
5.37 
22 
8 
152 
189 
65 
403 
141 
10 
138 
9 
3 
72 
144 
81 
81 
16 
6 
23 
21 
26 
47 
26 
162 
9 
313 
17 
156 
251 
84.62 
Franklin, N. H 
88.89 
3 
4 
1 
82 
2 
1.85 
1.83 
1.11 
12.65 
1.34 
93.83 
Hartford, Conn. .. . . 
24 
7 
245 
10 
7 
117 
8 
3 
19 
24 
10 
9 
1 
12 
3 
3 
3 
13 
18 
17 
4 
33 
17 
103 
230 
11.01 
7.78 
37.81 
6.71 
70.00 
64.64 
80.00 
100.00 
23.17 
12.44 
8.47 
9.68 
5.00 
100.00 
13.04 
11.11 
11.54 
26.53 
60.00 
10.12 
30.77 
8.89 
89.47 
57.54 
40.00 
86.70 
Binghampton, N . Y . , and 
suburbs ._ 
72.22 
Pittsburgh, Pa . 
72 
11.11 
1 
.15 
62.19 
94.63 
Eau Claire, Wis.. 
100.00 
St. Paul, Minn 
43 
1 
23.76 
10.00 
76.24 
Grand Forks, N. Dak 
90.00 
Devils Lake, N. Dak 
100.00 
Butte, Mont 
43 
151 
80 
83 
19 
52.44 
78.24 
67.80 
89.25 
95.00 
10 
11 
28 
1 
12.20 
5.70 
23.73 
1.08 
8 
7 
9.76 
3.63 
2 
2.44 
10 
49 
37 
12 
4 
12.20 
25.39 
31.36 
12.90 
20.00 
87.80 
Des Moines, Iowa 
74.61 
Lincoln, Nebr., and sub- 
urbs. 
68.64 
Springfield, Mo 
Amarillo, Tex 
87.10 
80.00 
6 50. on 
50.00 
Lynchburg, Va . 
13 
24 
10 
24 
12 
134 
9 
324 
56.52 
88.89 
38.46 
48.98 
40.00 
79.76 
69.23 
87.33 
-- 
7 
30.43 
100.00 
Bowling Green, Ky 
Raleigh, N. C . 
6 
22.22 
77.78 
13 
12 
50.00 
24.49 
100.00 
Winston-Salem, N. C 
2 
4 
6 
4 
4.08 
13.33 
3.57 
30.77 
95.92 
Columbia", S. C 
86.67 
17 
10.12 
96.43 
69.23 
14 
3.77 
5815.63 
84.37 
Baton Rouge, La 
Portland, Oreg. 
2 
14 
40 
10.53 
7.82 
6.96 
2 
23 
324 
10.53 
12.85 
56.35 
89.47 
62 
244 
34.64 
42.43 
87.15 
Los Angeles, Calif 
57 
9.91 
4 
.70 
43.65 
Total 
3,504 
2, 150 
61,35 
941 
26.86 
214 
6.11 
192 
5.48 
7 
.20 
913 
26.06 
2,591 
73.94 
The Louisiana sanitary code requires that stores retailing fresh 
meats in that State be in rat-proof buildings, be 3y 2 feet clear from 
any other structure, and be not under the same roof or have entrance 
to any other kind of store. Accordingly no combination meat and 
grocery stores were found in the canvass of Baton Kouge. New Or- 
leans, an incompletely canvassed city, had 20 public markets with a 
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