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A Few Suggestions About Shopping

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
March
Year
1881
Copyright
Public Domain
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Never tbiuk of trcating clerks respectfully, aoj always give ihatil as ujuch truuble as pi-i!i]i'. If oq going up to the counter any one is in your way pau thaa asid. Thai bhows your iudependence and good breedinjf. If a just and uprilit uieivli uit ha but one price f'ur his goods don t patronice him. Trade oiily with those ou can browbeat. Talk big and laugh loud and every one, inluding the propriitor and clerks will tbink you are a milliunaire in disguise - ur a looi. No matter how busy a day il is if you see any one you want to vinit ur OMÍp with tlo it. Keep the clerk waiting; tliat ín wliat be is eiuployed for. Never wait to be asked to give an opinión about goods another is buying. 8tep right up and give it unsolieited. It shows your prompiness and MlWtMM. Always try to tear or break the fabric while loDking at it. It shows, yoa know, what you are about and that nu one can f'oot you with a pieos of goods. Üon't think of aking explicity for what you want. Make the clerk haul down the whole side of the Btore and tlusn teil him you are only looking arouod. Always lakei hcild of pieoo tgOoí$ another h handliug. Nuver wait uatil it is put back on the .-htlf. If you don't like it, ay so, or give a eoatmnptaéut miiII'. VVtien a clerk ibs rnrr irkh ¦ MIHWBOI always nsist on his leaving ai.d wuitinx oa VDIl It t'ivi'S l.ini n f" ¦¦ '" -f j.rui importaaee and is jileant lr tké dthar custonur. Always beat down prires when hhopping. You know whüt good. (Miulit to be told fijr better than ihe njerchant. And if you don't do it the prababilities are thit tlu salesmen won't think ynu are any great fthftkfln. When a customer haboat to buy always sugiret tu him tliat he eould buy obeaper and better goods somewhere else. It is ati insult to the crafty weichaot umi a proper rebuke to the cunning clerk, but it shows you have a uiiud ofyeur owo. Always flnd limit and make sneering remarks about goodl and eotupare tliem unfavorably with th.p.se ot' uotkei house. Doo't bu mealy rnoutlud ah ut it Do it loul. This will make the merehant and his clerks love you and will cause theui to Opea the (foor tor you when you go out. l'uri'liasersshould as tur a posible, buy all they can away from home. It ia :i poor polioy to patronm merobanta of tln-ir own town even if it doei keep tiioney ut home and the goods are ju.-t ai obeap, Ajjaio, it may make soine merchante prosperous and happy and thut can not be too heartily cundemncd. Never pay for nnything when you get it, if youoan possiblyget credit. If the nieroh ant trusts you let him sue for the pay. Then always try to injure him in every way you can, from that carne on. This business of cash aown or prompt payment is altogelher too liable to make merchants bloated boridholders. If a nuUtaka ii made by vrhicb you get more goods than yuu paid lor or receive more change than is your due, never tbink of icciifying. Tlie niercbaut will ohuckle in his sleeve and think you are green if you do. All these suggestions carefully borne in mind and acted upon will insuro most aay one a prompt and hearty rcception- two doors further on.

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News