William H. Ukers (author)
- family gets balance of order shopped around other stores ⟨when coffee and tea are bought from wagon-route distributer and chain store⟩
if coffees and teas are bought from the wagon-route distributer and the chain store, the balance of a family's order is "shopped around."
judge verdicts (2)
- groundedness 1.00 pass — The claim is directly stated in the passage. The exact quote provided appears verbatim in the text, and the passage explicitly asserts that when families purchase coffee and tea from wagon-route distributors and chain stores, the balance of their shopping is done at other stores ("shopped around"), which negatively impacts independent retail grocers.
- qualifier_fidelity 1.00 pass — All qualifiers are faithful to the passage. The viewpoint is correctly attributed to the author (the passage presents this as a general observation from a trade investigation, not attributed to a named source). The stance is appropriately marked as 'asserts' rather than 'disputes' or 'questions'. The sentiment is negative, which matches the problematic framing ('problem of how to regain', customers being 'held' to stores, orders being 'shopped around' suggesting lost business). The time qualifiers are correctly null since the passage provides no specific temporal scope. The context accurately reflects the conditional restriction stated in the passage ('when coffees and teas are bought from the wagon-route distributer and the chain store'). The quote appears verbatim and directly supports the claim about families shopping around for the balance of their orders when coffee/tea come from competing sources.