Beschreibung:
In Consuming Passion, Carl Gardner and Julie Sheppard have written the first overall study of the 'retail revolution' - a controversial and hard-hitting look at where retailing has come from, what it has achieved and where it is going. Key issues such as the role of design, the growth of the supermarket and shopping centre and the poor conditions of retail employment are all minutely examined. The book also discusses the very real pleasures that consumers gain from today's enhanced shopping experience.
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; 9. Back to the Future: Retail in the 1990s and Beyond; Appendix; Bibliography; Index