Main Street was lined with the stores of small individual merchants a few years ago. Then came a chain store and soon others followed. After all the small retailers had been displaced and their places were taken by chain stores the question of the savings came up a woman's meeting. The wife of an ousted retail merchant told the story of her husband being forced out of business. Was it better for the women of that town to save a few cents or to have the breadwinners of their families deprived of their means of livelihood?
a) National Wholesale Grocers' Association, on Why Chain Stores Threaten the Nation's Welfare
b) Florence Kelley's Aims and Principles of the National Consumers League
c) National Wholesale Grocers' Association, on Why Chain Stores Threaten the Nation's Welfare
d) Jewish Immigrant Abraham Kohn Laments His Wanderings as a Peddler
