This form of retailing was referred to as " catalogue showroom "; Consumers Distributing was left with a near monopoly on the format in Canada.

* Consumers Distributing, a retail store chain

Consumers Distributing ( known in Quebec as Distribution aux Consommateurs ) was a catalogue store in Canada and the United States that operated from 1957 to 1996.

Consumers Distributing aimed to reduce costs for customers by stocking merchandise in a warehouse type stocking system instead of displaying them in a costly showroom.

The first Consumers Distributing store was opened in 1957 by Jack Stupp in Toronto.

Consumers Distributing sought bankruptcy protection in 1996, a fate that befell its US competitors Best Products and Service Merchandise and most major jewellery chains in Canada.

Argos, which was modelled on the format of Consumers Distributing, continues to thrive in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.

Consumers Distributing was plagued by the perception of things " always being out of stock " due to the catalogue shopping nature of the store.

Consumers Distributing undertook several initiatives to dispel this " out of stock " perception, including " super stores " that had all of the available, in-stock products on display ; and free home delivery or store to store transfer for items that were not in stock.

In 1990 / 1991, some stores became Toy City / Consumers Distributing stores.

American actress Shirley Jones once represented Consumers Distributing in television commercials based on the theme " Consumers, we wrote the book on savings!

* Consumers Distributing Company Limited-sold 50 % stake in 1978

* Cardinal Distributors, a mail-order gift catalogue that merged in 1980 with Consumers Distributing.

Consumers and merchants were slow to accept it, and there was minimal marketing.

In 1939, Consumers Public Power District was formed in Columbus.

When it was revealed that the containment buildings were settling and foundation cracks were discovered, Dow cancelled their contract with Consumers Power, and the project was abandoned in 1984.

In October 2006, the Entertainment Consumers Association ( ECA ) was established as the first non-profit membership organization formed to represent American computer and video game consumers.

The bill was reintroduced into Congress once again on March 9, 2005 as H. R. 1201, the ' Digital Media Consumers Rights Act of 2005 '.

It was built between 1969 and 1973 at a cost of $ 315 million and is owned jointly by Consumers Energy and Detroit Edison and operated by Consumers Energy.

Consumers Union was founded in 1936 by Arthur Kallet, Colston Warne, and others who felt that the established Consumers Research organization was not aggressive enough.

The reason for the name change was that the name " Consumer Reports " was more familiar to the public than the name " Consumers Union ".

Consumers Digest was founded by Arthur Weber in 1960 ( from masthead ).

After Roosevelt's victory in the election, Douglas, at the recommendation of his friend Harold Ickes, was appointed to serve on the Consumers ' Advisory Board of the National Recovery Administration.

A four-song EP was recorded at the home of Tom Mehren in Pasadena with Paul B. Cutler ( guitarist for 45 Grave and The Consumers ) engineering and producing and released on Wynn's Down There label, and the band quickly achieved local attention for its often aggressively long, feedback-soaked improvisations.

The Consumers ' Association was among the first groups granted these new powers.

He helped found the Oxford Consumers ' Group, and was its first Chairman in 1961-3, serving again in 1965.

Early on, the band began by playing the Consumers songs that Cutler had written, with lyrics changed to fit Cancer's singing style, before concentrating on composing new material like " Black Cross " ( issued as their first single, featuring Pat Smear of The Germs on guitar ) and a fast-paced punk song called " Party Time " ( which was later slowed down and reworked on their 1983 debut album and sole studio release, Sleep in Safety.

Consumers Park was closed in 1928 and replaced by the current Botanic Garden station five blocks to the north.

Due to the introduction of the MMP electoral system, a New Right " Association of Consumers and Taxpayers " party, known as ACT New Zealand was formed by ex-Labour New Right-aligned Cabinet Ministers like Richard Prebble and others, and maintaining existing New Right policy initiatives such as the Employment Contracts Act, while also introducing US-style " welfare reform.

* Consumers can enjoy fresh, seasonally-grown food that was produced within a drivable distance from their homes.

Consumers are willing to give up or trade-off some of one good to get more of another.

The Consumers Union also raises one other major point.

Consumers of one product could be more price elastic than the consumers of the other product ( and therefore more sensitive to changes in the product's price ).

In founding the National Consumers League in 1899, one of Kelley's strong concerns was that the league oppose sweatshop labor.

He also was involved in the Consumers ' Gas Company being one of its founding directors.

The establishment of Consumers Union was one of the major events influencing the consumer movement after World War I.

It was originally called the Consumers Power Company — one of several divisions within H. M. Byllesby's vast public utility empire — but changed its name to NSP in 1916 ( possibly to avoid confusion with an identically named company in Michigan ).

The name “ CUB ” originally stood for Consumers United for Buying, and Cub Foods was one of the first total discount food stores in the United States.

* In 2009, Consumers Digest named CI one of their " top-rated charities.

Consumers would be able to call and order all of their energy from Enron in one bill.

Following her first term in Congress, Rankin accepted Florence Kelley ’ s invitation to be field secretary for the National Consumers League, while also spending the next years pushing for reform legislation to promote maternal and child health care.

From 1999 to 2005 Johnson was a junior minister serving first as Economic Secretary to the Treasury, next in the DTI as Minister for Competition and Consumers, and finally as Minister for Public Health in the Department of Health.

When Douglas established the Association of Consumers and Taxpayers ( which later formed the ACT party ), Hide had close involvement as the organisation's first chairman and president.

The RD 350 was the very first super performance offering to the Indian Consumers at a time ( 1983 ) when the only bikes in India were the Bullet 350, the Jawa ( Yezdi ) 250 2 stroke and Rajdoot 175 cc 2 stroke.

This organization, Consumers Union, published its first magazine Consumers Union Reports in May 1936.

* 2004 – Consumers Union ( USA ) joins ICRT, Asia-Pacific Regional Group met for the first time

Consumers who ignored instructions and attempted to use chemical drain openers first could be chemically burned from blow-back.

Consumers also commonly pay down a large portion of their credit card debt in the first fiscal quarter of the year as this tends to be the time when people receive holiday bonuses and tax refunds.

At first, the Australian Consumers ' Association reprinted material from its UK and US counterparts.

From its founding in 1899, Kelley served as the first general secretary of the National Consumers League.

A. Cooper, built the first electrical plant in Humboldt in 1890 ; the two Guy Coopers served a total of 27 years on the board of NPPD and its predecessor agency, Consumers Public Power District.

The organisation was first established in 1960 as the International Organisation of Consumers Unions ( IOCU ) by national consumer organisations.

The founding of IOCU was initially planned by Elizabeth Schadee, who would later chair the board of Holland's Consumentenbond, and Caspar Brook, who was the first director of the England's Consumers ' Association.

The first state or territory based consumer organisation was Canberra Consumers, established in 1963 by Michael Vernon, Godfrey Linge and Bill Howitt.

She was Secretary of State of Trade for Consumers ' protection between 1976 and 1978, first in Jacques Chirac's and then in Raymond Barre's cabinet.

The first commercial nuclear steam supply system was sold to Consumers Power Company of Michigan for the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station, which is still in operation.