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title: Pledged to keep prices down
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pledged-to-keep-prices-down-grocer-consumer-1944/
description: Square window-emblem sheet showing two clasped hands inside an oval ring reading 'Grocer-Consumer Anti-Inflation Campaign'.
section: Collection
---

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[![Pledged to keep prices down, 1944 US poster: Square window-emblem sheet showing two clasped hands inside an oval ring reading](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/pledged-to-keep-prices-down-grocer-consumer-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/pledged-to-keep-prices-down-grocer-consumer-1944.jpg)

# Pledged to keep prices down

Square window-emblem sheet showing two clasped hands inside an oval ring reading 'Grocer-Consumer Anti-Inflation Campaign', with 'Pledged to keep prices down' and three shop promises below. The technique is bandwagon: a shopkeeper displaying the emblem joins a visible campaign, with the handshake standing for a shared pledge between seller and buyer. The technique is faint beyond that.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
GROCER-CONSUMER
ANTI-INFLATION CAMPAIGN
PLEDGED TO
KEEP PRICES DOWN
WE CHARGE ONLY CEILING PRICES OR LESS
WE POST CEILING PRICE LISTS PROMINENTLY
WE WELCOME QUESTIONS ABOUT OUR PRICES
WINDOW EMBLEM
[imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944--O--610623]
```

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