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same, and the independents still dominated the business.
As Godfrey M. Lebhar writes iYi his new book, “Chain Stores in America,” “instead of being (wiped completely out of the picture as he had expected to be in the ‘20s the independent merchant has retained his competitive position both in number of stores and in yolume of sales.” The competition provided by the chain? put the independent on his mettle—and vice versa. Retailer and consumer alike benefited.
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