Creameries Begin Direct Sales to Chain Stores
Scope and Content Note: Butter originally sold by creameries to commission houses. After districts set up creameries began to market directly to chain stores, especially National Tea and Consumers companies. Lucia met with chain store buyers. Creamery districts did not compete against one another for sales. S.B. Cook, fieldman for District No. Four (Barron County), important in initiating chain store sales in New York as well as Chicago.