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Last summer, when we reached California for a year's sojourn, we had the good fortune to secure a house with a splendid garden. A few weeks ago, after the early warm days of a California February had opened up the first blossoms of the season, our little five-year-old discovered that the garden furnished a fine outlet for her enterprise, and she soon produced two gorgeous--I will not say beautiful--bouquets. | Department Stores Are Carried On by W. B. Phillips 1 Department Stores Are Carried On by W. B. Phillips Project Gutenberg s How Department Stores Are Carried On by W. B. Phillips This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title How Department Stores Are Carried On Author W. B. Phillips Release Date January 25 2010 EBook 31073 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DEPARTMENT STORES Produced by Charlene Taylor Barbara Kosker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive Canadian Libraries How Department Stores Are Carried On Department Stores Are Carried On by W. B. Phillips 2 BY W. B. PHILLIPS Illustration NEW YORK DODD MEAD COMPANY 1901 Contents. Introduction 5 General Principles 7 The Management 10 The System 12 Advertising 15 The Buying Organization 25 Receiving Goods 32 Taking Care of Stock 34 Serving Customers 35 Exchanging Goods 38 Floor Managers and Ushers 40 Making out Checks 43 Inspecting Checking and Parcelling Goods 46 Collecting Goods for Delivery 48 Delivering Goods 51 Stables 54 Cash Office 57 Check Office or Auditing Department 58 C. O. D. Business 60 The Mail-Order Business 62 Catalogues 73 Department Stores Are Carried On by W. B. Phillips Receiving and Opening Mail 95 3 Book-keeping Buying Checking etc. 100 Assembling and Packing Mail-Order Goods 106 Goods sent by Mail Correspondence Paying for Goods etc. 110 Filing Correspondence 117 Special Orders 119 Returned Goods Exchanges and Complaints 121 Samples 123 Keeping Employees Time 125 Employing Help 128 Paying Wages 130 Watchmen 131 General Rules for Employees 133 Mechanical Section 139 INTRODUCTION. No other branch of business can bear .