The book Consumers And Social Reform was written by author J Elliot John Elliot Ross Here you can read free online of Consumers And Social Reform book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Consumers And Social Reform a good or bad book?
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But to get these purchasers he must (unless he have some sort of monopoly) offer his product at a price no higher than other manufacturers C57] CONSUMERS AND WAGE-EARNERS are willing to take for the same article. If he deviate only a few cents, the expert buyers of retail stores will know it and go elsewhere. There is a constant demand for cheapness, a universal eagerness to "get your money's worth"; and factories and retail firms must meet it, or see their trade taken away by com- petitors. Th...e intense desire of individual buy- ers for minute savings of a cent here or a frac- tion of a cent there, becomes, in the aggregate, an irresistible Demand with a capital D, "a blood-power stronger than steam, " compelling the retailer (who in his turn reacts upon the manufacturer) to sell cheap. "The phenomena of sweating are a standing warning against the dangers that are inherent in unregulated com- petition. . . . The underlying cause of the evil, " affirms a noted English economist, "is certainly to be found in the indiscriminate pref- erence of the public for that which is low- priced.
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