03212oam 2200649I 450 991046194640332120200520144314.01-283-64276-X0-203-10710-11-136-26078-110.4324/9780203107102 (CKB)2670000000259348(EBL)1039266(OCoLC)815653510(SSID)ssj0000790566(PQKBManifestationID)11510551(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000790566(PQKBWorkID)10746894(PQKB)11746740(MiAaPQ)EBC1039266(Au-PeEL)EBL1039266(CaPaEBR)ebr10611603(CaONFJC)MIL395526(OCoLC)823654962(EXLCZ)99267000000025934820180706e20131989 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrConsuming passion the rise of retail culture /Carl Gardner and Julie SheppardLondon ;New York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (280 p.)Routledge library editions. Retailing and distribution ;v. 1"First published in 1989"--T.p. verso.0-415-54029-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Trade9 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; IndexBritain'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 seRoutledge Library Editions: Retailing and DistributionRetail tradeElectronic books.Retail trade.381.10941381.3381/.1/0941Gardner Carl.928391Sheppard JulieWriter on retail.928392MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461946403321Consuming passion2086625UNINA