LEADER 03078nam0 22003493i 450 001 VAN0107375 005 20221130044932.435 010 $a978-01-993842-7-3 010 $a978-01-993842-8-0 100 $a20170119d2016 |0itac50 ba 101 $aeng 102 $aGB 105 $a|||| ||||| 200 1 $aCornering the market$eindependent grocers and innovation in American small business$fSusan V. Spellman 210 $aOxford$aNew York$cOxford University Press$d2016 215 $aXII, 226 p.$cill.$d25 cm 330 $aIn popular stereotypes, local grocers were avuncular men who spent their days in pickle-barrel conversations and checkers games; they were backward small-town merchants resistant to modernizing impulses. Cornering the Market challenges these conventions to demonstrate that nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century grocers were important but unsung innovators of business models and retail technologies that fostered the rise of contemporary retailing. Small grocery owners revolutionized business practices from the bottom by becoming the first retailers to own and operate cash registers, develop new distribution paths, and engage in transforming the grocery trade from local enterprises to a nationwide industry. Drawing on storekeepers'diaries, business ledgers and documents, and the letters of merchants, wholesalers, traveling men, and consumers, Susan V. Spellman details the remarkable achievements of American small businessmen, and their major contributions to the making of'modern'enterprise in the United States. The development of mass production, distribution, and marketing, the growth of regional and national markets, and the introduction of new organizational and business methods fundamentally changed the structures of American capitalism. Within the walls of their stores, proprietors confronted these changes by crafting solutions centered on notions of efficiency, scale, and price control. Without abandoning local ties, they turned social concepts of community into commercial profitability. It was a powerful combination that businesses from chain stores to Walmart continue to exploit today. 606 $aGrocery trade$xUnited States$xHistory$3VANC032836$2EC 606 $aSmall business$xUnited States$xHistory$3VANC032837$2EC 620 $aUS$dNew York$3VANL000011 620 $aGB$dOxford$3VANL000020 676 $a381.450020945$v21 700 1$aSpellman$bSusan V.$3VANV082888$0721089 712 $aOxford university$3VANV107944$4650 801 $aIT$bSOL$c20221202$gRICA 856 4 $uhttp://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1168287$zE-book ? Accesso al full-text attraverso riconoscimento IP di Ateneo, proxy e/o Shibboleth 899 $aBIBLIOTECA DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI ECONOMIA$1IT-CE0106$2VAN03 912 $fN 912 $aVAN0107375 950 $aBIBLIOTECA DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI ECONOMIA$d03CONS e-book(1168287) $e03BDE549 20170119 $sBuono 996 $aCornering the market$91412611 997 $aUNISOB