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Originally Posted by Volod
Dave - Do you know of - or perhaps post at your website - any detailed information on Topps' retail distribution in the company's early years, such as 1951 - 53? I would really enjoy reading about that subject.
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In addition to a reference to Rexall Drugs on the West Coast buying large amounts of 1952's I have somewhere if you click the link to my blog I have posted a bit more, including a 1949 order form for Consolidated Merchants Syndicate, which had 3,000 member stores.
http://toppsarchives.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-dimesthey-are-changin.html
Topps also used two different unions to ship product. One to the old tobacco/confectionery jobbers and one to the retail accounts like Consolidated. At one point in the mid 70's one union went on strike while the other one didn't!