Consuming Passion : The Rise of Retail Culture

ISBN-13: 9780415540292 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012

Carl Gardner

Opis

Britain's high street revolution has made retailing one of the most important and dynamic sectors of the British economy in the last 20 years. In 'Consuming Passion', Carl Gardner and Julie Sheppard explore the 'retail revolution', looking at where retailing has come from, what it has achieved and where it is going.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Gardner, Carl; Sheppard, Julie