This plan offers an opportunity to enter the grocery business on $25
capital. The first step is to install shelves in a closet or pantry,
covering them with plain white paper. Next, go to a wholesale grocery
store and purchase—
25 lbs. Tea
25 lbs. Soda
25 bars of Laundry Soap
25 bars of Toilet Soap
6¼ lbs. Pepper
25 small bags of Table Salt
25 lbs. lump Starch
25 bottles of Wash Blue
The next step is to have printed a few hundred bills as shown on
following page.
Either mail these bills, or distribute them by hand to each home you
wish for customers. Distribute the day before you open.
In addition to making 25 per cent profit on each sale, you can establish
dozens of good customers your first day.
It is very essential that you use the brands of soaps, etc., which are
the best sellers in your town, and that you state the trade name of each
article on your bills. It goes without saying that in no case should you
list the “regular price” higher than the stores are selling.
Tea happens to be one of the most profitable articles in a grocery
store, and this fact enables you to make this liberal offer.