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Excerpt from Methods of Increasing Productivity in Modern Grocery Warehouses: Marketing Research Report No. 94 The modern one-floor warehouse has several advantages over the multi story warehouse for efficient receiving of merchandise. Fewer manehours are required to move merchandise horizontally to the storage point than horizontally and vertically as must be done in the multistory operation. The one-floor warehouse also has more dock space for receiving merchandise from common carriers. This results in less congestion around the dock and a more flexible workload schedule. With unit (pallet) load handling, the tons of merchandise handled per man-hour in receiving groceries are more than twice as great as in the shipping operation; nevertheless, receipts must still be unloaded case by case in the rail car or motortruck onto a pallet, conveyor, or handtruck (h-wheeler). For wholesale grocers, the initial cost of case-by-case handling is unavoidable except when merchandise is received by motortruck and the driver places it on the pallets. 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.