Unit price business

The unit price business is a historical form of retail trade in which the prices for the range were limited to a few, round amounts. It was particularly common in the United States . In Germany there were unit price stores in the 1920s and early 1930s. It is considered a forerunner of the low-price business and a pioneer of self-service .

The market share in Germany was a good one percent, but the economic significance was greater. In March 1932, an emergency ordinance issued a ban on the establishment and expansion of unit price transactions in Germany. In contrast to the USA, groceries had a relatively high share in the range of German low-price shops.

Examples of German uniform price transactions are EPA , Rekord and shops of the ERWEGE purchasing cooperative . An example of a Swiss store is the EPA department store (no connection to the German company of the same name).

There is a similarity to today's “ 1 euro shops ”.

literature

• Horst Richard Mutz: The unit price business as a modern form of business in German retail. Industrieverlag Spaeth & Linde, Berlin / Vienna 1932.

Web links

• Robert Nieschlag / Gustav Kuhn: Internal trade and internal trade policy , Chapter VI: The uniform price business and the low-price department store. 3rd edition, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-04685-4 .