Richard Dye
master brummie
Maybe I’m missing something, how is a cash chemist different from today?
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This is how it's explained in relation to Boots the Chemist.
Jesse Boot began to sell patent medicines at discounted prices for cash (rather than credit, as most chemists would have done at this time). Poorer patients would have, before cash chemists, been given credit for the expensive medicines that were sold. So as well as being ill they fell into debt.
Jesse Boot began to sell patent medicines at discounted prices for cash (rather than credit, as most chemists would have done at this time). Poorer patients would have, before cash chemists, been given credit for the expensive medicines that were sold. So as well as being ill they fell into debt.
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Richard Dye
master brummie
Thank you! I did not realize that credit was offered back in the day….
Must have been a similar arrangement to "on the slate" in grocery stores etc or "on tick". From memory, still in existence at least into the 1950s/60s here Richard.
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Richard Dye
master brummie
Yes, I remember on the “tick” my uncle did that at his greengrocers at 264 Litchfield Road. It was a very informal process sometimes nothing written down, yet at the end of each week when it was reconciled, the ££ were never questioned. Always wondered about that! That would be mid 1950’s.
Thank you!
