LEADER 03245oam 2200661I 450 001 9910785990103321 005 20230803024710.0 010 $a1-136-26077-3 010 $a1-283-64276-X 010 $a0-203-10710-1 010 $a1-136-26078-1 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203107102 035 $a(CKB)2670000000259348 035 $a(EBL)1039266 035 $a(OCoLC)815653510 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000790566 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11510551 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000790566 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10746894 035 $a(PQKB)11746740 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1039266 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1039266 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10611603 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL395526 035 $a(OCoLC)823654962 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB133658 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000259348 100 $a20180706e20131989 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aConsuming passion $ethe rise of retail culture /$fCarl Gardner and Julie Sheppard 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (280 p.) 225 0 $aRoutledge library editions. Retailing and distribution ;$vv. 1 300 $a"First published in 1989"--T.p. verso. 311 $a0-415-54029-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a9 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 330 $aBritain's high street revolution has made retailing one of the most important and dynamic sectorsof the British economy in the last twenty years. It has had an irreversible impact on our towns and cities and, for many people, transformed shopping from an unattractive domestic chore to a pleasurable 'leisure 'experience', offering consumers an everchanging array of 'disposable dreams'. The resulting 'retail culture' is everywhere - it has colonised huge areas of our social life outside the traditional high street, from sporting venues to arts centres, from railway termini to museums. Many se 410 0$aRoutledge Library Editions: Retailing and Distribution 606 $aRetail trade 615 0$aRetail trade. 676 $a381.10941 676 $a381.3 676 $a381/.1/0941 700 $aGardner$b Carl.$01560306 701 $aSheppard$b Julie$cWriter on retail.$01560307 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785990103321 996 $aConsuming passion$93826183 997 $aUNINA