03048nam 2200625 450 991081113230332120230803215955.01-4677-1658-8(CKB)2550000001106457(SSID)ssj0000956948(PQKBManifestationID)12427378(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000956948(PQKBWorkID)10965355(PQKB)11642663(MiAaPQ)EBC5441656(MiAaPQ)EBC5055291(Au-PeEL)EBL5441656(CaPaEBR)ebr11597497(OCoLC)1027198260(Au-PeEL)EBL5055291(CaONFJC)MIL506822(EXLCZ)99255000000110645720130104h20142014 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrSpending spree the history of American shopping /Cynthia Overbeck BixMinneapolis :Twenty-First Century Books,[2014]©20141 online resource (92 pages) illustrationsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-4677-1017-2 1-299-75571-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.A nation discovers shopping -- Shopping goes big time -- The lowest prices in town -- Meet me at the mall -- The cyber shopping explosion.Ka-ching! Ever stop to think how our modern-day shopping culture came to be? In the early 1800s, stores were few and far between in the United States. General stores supplied everything from fabric and flour to handsaws and clocks. As the country grew, mail-order catalogs arrived at homes across the country, Mom and Pop specialty shops sprang up along Main Street, and later, shopping malls and big box megastores thrived in the suburbs. Then online shopping arrived via the Internet and changed the consumer experience yet again! Buying behaviors also changed over time. For example, did you know you could barter for a pound of sugar at a general store in the early 1800s? Or that department stores in the 1900s added restrooms and ladies lounges to encourage women to shop all day long? Or that online shopping in the twenty-first century is a multibillion-dollar industry? Spending Spree takes readers on an amazing journey from farmlands to cyberspace to learn about the evolution of shopping in the United States.Retail tradeUnited StatesHistoryStores, RetailUnited StatesHistoryShopping mallsUnited StatesHistoryConsumersUnited StatesHistoryRetail tradeHistory.Stores, RetailHistory.Shopping mallsHistory.ConsumersHistory.381/.10973Bix Cynthia Overbeck1692557MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811132303321Spending spree4069740UNINA