This week the 400,000 grocery stores of the U.S. will be well on their way through a violent financial transition. To all grocers, for the duration, ration points will be a lot more important than dollars & cents.
The transition to the new currency began with sugar and coffee. This month came the rationing of canned goods. On March 29 meats, hard cheeses, fats, oils and canned fish will be added.
As a result the grocery trade, which in 1942 did an estimated business of $15 billion, in 1943 will do a business of...
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