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N NEW YORK there is a men’s shop on lower Third Avenue which has
catered for some twenty years to a special clientele—fat men. Here the
oversize man can select suits, shirts, socks, shoes, and hats without the usual
difficulties of being fitted in the average store. Even the clerks themselves are
of whopping dimensions in order that the customer may not be embarrassed
by any suggestion that he is an unusual specimen of the human race!

Naturally, only in a large metropolis can a special shop such as this find a
need for its very special services. Cities, size of Detroit, Cleveland,
Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, would
probably offer markets large enough for such a specialty store. The same
cities would also offer a market for a similar store catering to the stout
woman.

In smaller cities, a special department catering to stout women or men is
usually located in the larger department stores. Any stout person will tell you,
however, that there is much room for improvement in these departments. The
alert retailer who can develop such a department to its fullest will find a
corresponding increase in his income.

Open a Drug-Less Drug Store

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URING the Florida boom a young woman was sent by her firm to West Palm
Beach as assistant manager of a small branch. She found the new place
delightful, made many friends and brought her mother to live with her. When
the bottom fell out of Florida, however, the home office immediately closed
the branch and recalled the staff. It was not pleasant to think of going north
again, taking a clerk’s job in the home office (she couldn’t hope to step back
in her old position) and giving up the companionship of the good friends she
and her mother had made in the five years they had lived in West Palm
Beach. She realized that she would have to find some way to make a living in
Florida! But how?

While buying some cold cream in a drug store the day after the notice came