Beyond Piggly Wiggly : inventing the American self-service store /

"Patented in 1917, Piggly Wiggly was by far the most influential self-service store of the early twentieth century. Before 1940 it was the only self-service chain with a national distribution network, but it was neither the first nor the only version. Beyond Piggly Wiggly reveals the importance...

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Tác giả chính: Tolbert, Lisa C. (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2023]
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3441123
Mục lục:
  • Introduction: looking backward, dreaming a store of the future
  • Machines for automatic selling
  • Inventing Piggly Wiggly, 1916-1923
  • Selling the store, 1918-1933
  • Navigating the self-service landscape, 1920-1940
  • The purchase-inducing force of the store
  • Mechanizing paternalism: the southern origins of self-service
  • Super-sizing self-service in the 1930s
  • Conclusion: achieving technological momentum.