Excerpt from Operating Expenses in the Retail Hardware Stores in 1919 The number of merchants who continue to send in their reports each year and the number of new cooperators indicate a gradual increase of interest in the comparisons of the cost of doing business. AS in the other investigations that the Bureau has been carrying on, there is a marked tendency toward improvement in the accuracy of the reports that are received. The merchants who reported for both 1918 and 1919 furnished more complete reports for the second year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.