SWEET-SHOP SUCCESS.

(Confectionery.)

SWEET-SHOP SUCCESS.

A Handbook for the Sweet Retailer. Produced by the Bournville Studio.

Description: FIRST EDITION, illustrations and figures throughout, some printing in red, pp. 197, [2], xxxi (Index), 8vo, original tan cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, that to latter now dulled, some faint spotting to cloth slightly heavier at backstrip, a few faint spots to top edge and to endpapers, the dustjacket a little nicked and chipped at extremities, the rear panel with two short closed tears at head, very good

Publication Details: Sir Isaac Pitman (for Cadbury Bros. Ltd.) 1949

Notes: An absorbing and thorough overview of the trade, at the tail-end of wartime rationing, addressing the various aspects of keeping a shop: from product knowledge, customer service, book-keeping and merchandising techniques to information about pests (there is a long description of the life-cycle of the Ephestia Moth). A chapter towards the close opens with the line: 'In addition to chocolates, sweets and tobacco, many of your customers enjoy a murder' - mercifully, the divergence it encourages is actually the suggestion of a library as 'an attractive and profitable sideline' within the shop, esp...moreAn absorbing and thorough overview of the trade, at the tail-end of wartime rationing, addressing the various aspects of keeping a shop: from product knowledge, customer service, book-keeping and merchandising techniques to information about pests (there is a long description of the life-cycle of the Ephestia Moth). A chapter towards the close opens with the line: 'In addition to chocolates, sweets and tobacco, many of your customers enjoy a murder' - mercifully, the divergence it encourages is actually the suggestion of a library as 'an attractive and profitable sideline' within the shop, especially if 'meeting the public demand for stories of romance, horror, mystery, espionage, cattle rustling and sudden death' HIDE

Enquire about this book

Price: £90

Subject: Sciences

Published Date: 1949

Stock Number: 69301

(Your basket is currently empty)