discount house

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In the process, the distinction between a discount house and a department store is getting harder to tell without a scorecard.

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What really drives the stores to distraction is the customer who tries to return a gift bought from a competitor or at a reduced price in a discount house.

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"In addition to the trade discount, we get an extra 1� discount by paying cash for everything we buy," says Los Angeles' William E. Phillips, whose discount house grossed $6,000,000 last year.

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A St. Louis discount house, H. E. Krisman & Co., pushed its gross to $3,500,000 annually�and lost $200,000 doing it.

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And so, just when their little world—kindly, malicious, censorious, as the case might be—was expecting to hear of their engagement, Godfrey Pavely suddenly left Pewsbury to spend a year in a great Paris discount house.

From Love and hatred by Lowndes, Marie Belloc