Tag: groceries
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Tricks Of The Short Weight And Short Measure Men
This is an interesting overview of the tricks salesmen used to cheat their customers. By using containers with false bottoms, they created the illusion that there was more product than there really was. TRICKS OF THE SHORT WEIGHT AND SHORT MEASURE MEN: Comm’r. Driscoll Wages War on Hucksters and Dealers Who Cheat in Their Sale […]
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Edison Plans An Automatic Clerkless Shop
When I first read the headline, I thought “That sounds like an automat. I had no idea that Thomas Edison invented the automat!” But then I did some research and it turns out that Edison didn’t invent the automat. The first automat in the US had been in business for eight years before this article […]
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New Facts On The Increased Cost Of Living
I think it’s interesting to see how much things cost 100 years ago compared to today. In this case, the article compares the costs of foodstuffs in New York with London, so we get yet another data point. For example, a pound of apples cost between 4 and 6 cents in London 100 years ago, […]
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