Retail a!pocalypse now! -- A tale of two bankruptcies -- The great stores meltdown -- No longer a nation of shopkeepers -- Dark satanic malls -- My kingdom for a horse : the knock-on impact on branded suppliers -- The next big short? -- Killing more jobs than China -- A global p…
Pathways -- The shop floor -- The structure of domination and control -- Making contact -- Social ties and social change -- Our Walmart on the line -- Our Walmart "Walmart is the largest employer in the world. It encompasses nearly 1 percent of the entire American workforce--yo…
"Walmart is the largest employer in the world. It encompasses nearly 1 percent of the entire American workforce--young adults, parents, formerly incarcerated people, retirees. Walmart also presents one possible future of work--Walmartism--in which the arbitrary authority of mana…
Getrieben durch das rasante Wachstum des Einzelhandels über das Internet (E-Commerce), hat sich das Multi-Channel Retailing fest im Handel etabliert. Unter Multi-Channel Retailing versteht man ein spezifisches Distributionskonzept von Handelsunternehmen, das sich durch den paral…
In 11 chapters by leading scholars, 'The Market Makers' provides a detailed but highly readable analysis of how retailers have become the leading drivers of the new global economy.
Little has been known, acknowledged, or studied about the shuttle trade, one of the major manifestations of new Russian life of the 1990s. The term itself seems to suggest something of a rather small scale. Indeed, the amount of each transaction in this trade was miniscule. Indi…
"The modern retail system has worked to dazzling effect. From the 19th century, store owners emerged from small beginnings to set in train an industry that has seen some operators become nationally, even globally, dominant. Along the way, they turned retailing into an art, and t…
Popular stereotypes of Rockwellian storekeepers have characterized grocery retailers as backward and resistant to modernizing impulses. Cornering the Market challenges these conventions to show that early grocers were important but unsung innovators, revolutionizing business pra…
"When even everyday encounters can have precarious consequences for minorities in America, Michelle R. Dunlap offers a tapestry of how they experience shopping and the marketplace. Based on extensive interviews, Dunlap gives voice to personal narratives often unheard, offering c…