Consuming passion : the rise of retail culture / Carl Gardner and Julie Sheppard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gardner, Carl, author.

Contributor:

Sheppard, Julie, Writer on retail.

Series:

Routledge Library Editions: Retailing and Distribution

Routledge library editions. Retailing and distribution ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Retail trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Britain's high street revolution has made retailing one of the most important and dynamic sectorsof the British economy in the last twenty years. It has had an irreversible impact on our towns and cities and, for many people, transformed shopping from an unattractive domestic chore to a pleasurable 'leisure 'experience', offering consumers an everchanging array of 'disposable dreams'. The resulting 'retail culture' is everywhere - it has colonised huge areas of our social life outside the traditional high street, from sporting venues to arts centres, from railway termini to museums. Many se

Contents:

Cover; CONSUMING PASSION; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 The 'Retail Revolution' Revisited; 2 Prophets or Pirates? The Economics of Retail; 3 Consuming Passion: The Growth of Retail Culture; 4 The New Alchemy: Design in the Service of Retail; 5 The New Cathedral: The Rise and Rise of the Shopping Centre; 6 High Street Blues: Retailing and Urban Decline; 7 The Supermarketeers: Hard Selling in the Food Business; 8 Counter Revolution: Toil and Trouble in the Trade

9 Back to the Future: Retail in the 1990s and BeyondAppendix Who Owns What? Profiles of the Major Food and Non-food Retailing Groups and Their Holdings, 1988; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

"First published in 1989"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-26077-3

1-283-64276-X

0-203-10710-1

1-136-26078-1

9780203107102

OCLC:

815653510