Discusses the role of small business owners in developing business models and technologies that revolutionized retail trade, paving the way for the commercial profitability of today's chain stores. -- Dust jacket.
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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…
<DIV><DIV><P style=""MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"">Food Lovers' Guides</P><P style=""MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none""> </P><P style=""MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"">Indispensable handbooks to local gastronomic delights</…
The twelfth edition of Who's Buying Groceries is based on unpublished data collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2013 Consumer Expenditure Survey--you can't get these data online. It examines how much Americans spend on food at grocery and convenience stores by the demogr…
The twelfth edition of Who's Buying Groceries is based on unpublished data collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2013 Consumer Expenditure Survey--you can't get these data online. It examines how much Americans spend on food at grocery and convenience stores by the demogr…
From modest beginnings as a tea shop in New York, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company became the largest retailer in the world. It was a juggernaut, the first retailer to sell 1 billion dollars in goods, the owner of nearly sixteen thousand stores and dozens of factories an…