28 DECEMBER 1867, Page 3

A much wanted experiment is being tried in Whitechapel. Mr.

M,Call, manufacturer of preserved provisions, and a small limited company, have erected there a building, 80 feet by 60 feet, to be used as a retail "market." The shops are on the ground floor and in a gallery, which runs round above, two sides being appropriated to meat, and the remainder to other articles. All the salesmen are employes of the company, and the articles are carried direct from the wholesale markets, and retailed at a moderate advance. This is, in fact, rather a ready-money " store " than a market, for it does not admit of competition among the salesmen, but it may still be of great advantage to the neighbourhood. Any such concern is when it tempts people by low prices to abandon the system of asking credit.