Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping by Rachel Bowlby, ISBN 0231122756
The curious history of shopping and our ideas about it, from the glamorous nineteenth-century department store to our own multi-functional supermarkets
Carried away or loaded down, love it or hate it, we take shopping for granted as one of the pleasures, or burdens, of our lives. Yet we are curiously unaware of how we became the consumers that we are.
In this witty and revelatory book, Rachel Bowlby looks at some of the turning points of twentieth-century consumer history: when department stores gave way to supermarkets; when packaging made everyday things into objects of desire; when self-service created a close, new relationship between shoppers and merchandise. Carried Away looks at arguments about chocolate boxes and bars of soap, at modernist shop windows and supermarket shelves, at Stepford Wives and Rupert Bears -- at the many extraordinary ways that modern shopping and shoppers have been imagined and invented.
Bowlby focuses in particular on the development of supermarkets, which started in the United States as accidental discount ventures in the 1930s before rapidly settling into the standard stores of suburban malls. But self-service did not have to be massive in scale. Between the two world wars, writers on retail speculated about a new hands-on intimacy between shoppers and goods in the small local store, with no clerk interfering. At the same time, packaging, which after World War II came to symbolize crudely exploitative mass marketing, was a field for modernist experiment, promising a simple, sophisticated aesthetic for all.
Carried Away delves into these and other forgotten histories of twentieth-century stores and their shoppers; after you have read it, theaisles of the local market will never seem quite the same.
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Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping by Rachel Bowlby, ISBN 0231122756
The curious history of shopping and our ideas about it, from the glamorous nineteenth-century department store to our own multi-functional supermarkets
Carried away or loaded down, love it or hate it, we take shopping for granted as one of the pleasures, or burdens, of our lives. Yet we are curiously unaware of how we became the consumers that we are.
In this witty and revelatory book, Rachel Bowlby looks at some of the turning points of twentieth-century consumer history: when department stores gave way to supermarkets; when packaging made everyday things into objects of desire; when self-service created a close, new relationship between shoppers and merchandise. Carried Away looks at arguments about chocolate boxes and bars of soap, at modernist shop windows and supermarket shelves, at Stepford Wives and Rupert Bears -- at the many extraordinary ways that modern shopping and shoppers have been imagined and invented.
Bowlby focuses in particular on the development of supermarkets,...
Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping by Rachel Bowlby, ISBN 0231122756
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Sauder Haylea Universal TV Stand, Harvest Cherry
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Sauder Universal TV Stand, X-Wave Collection
- Universal TV stand made of engineered wood laminated with a soft black finish for beauty and protection
- Holds most 36-inch TVs and some 40-inch TVs that weigh 240 pounds or less
- 2 adjustable shelves hold audio/video equipment
- Assembly required; patented TWIST-LOCK fasteners provided
- Adjustable shelf dimensions: 19-29/64"W x 14-31/64"D
- Unit dimensions: 40-7/8"W x 24-3/4"D x 21-3/4"H
- Shipped with Sauder's TransGuard package protection, which features hard cardboard edging and shrink-wrap film on the carton to ensure your delivery arrives damage-free
- Model No. 1155-465
- Also available in some Wal-Mart stores
- Questions about furniture? See Frequently Asked Questions.
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Acer XD1170D Multipurpose Projector
Features:
- DLP (Digital Light Processing) technology from Texas Instruments
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 native, 16:9 wide
- Projection Mode: Front, rear, front ceiling, rear ceiling
- Horizontal Scan Rate: 31.5kHz - 100kHz
- Vertical Refresh Rate: 56Hz - 85Hz
- 16.7 million displayable colors
- Keystone Correction: +/- 16
- Video Compatibility: NTSC (3.58/4.43), PAL (B/D/G/H/I/M/N), SECAM (B/D/G/K/K1/L), HDTV (720p, 1080i), EDTV (480p, 576p), SDTV (480i, 576i)
- Native Resolution: SVGA (800 x 600)
- Maximum Resolution: SXGA (1280 x 1024)
- 2200:1 Contrast Ratio
- Brightness - ANSI Lumens: 2300 standard mode, 1840 economy mode
- Digital Zoom
- Integrated Speaker: 1 x 2.0W
- I/O Connectors Computer/AV Input: HDB 15-pin D-sub (VGA/component/HDTV), 3.5mm audio mini
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Sauder Entertainment Center, the Harbor View Collection
- Holds most 27-inch TVs and some 32-inch TVs (which weigh 135 pounds)
- 2 adjustable shelves behind framed, safety-tempered glass door hold audio/video equipment
- Lower storage with adjustable shelf holds 64 cardboard-case VHS tapes, 27 oversize-case VHS tapes, 156 CDs or 122 DVDs
- Additional storage behind lower door
- TV opening is 32-1/8"W x 29-1/2"H
- Unit size is 56-3/8"L x 20-3/4"L x 55-1/2"H
- Laminate finish
- Engineered wood
- Shipped with Sauder's TransGuard package protection, which features hard, cardboard edging and shrink-wrap film on the carton, to ensure your delivery arrives damage-free
- Assembly required
- Available at Walmart.
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