TY - BOOK AB - 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 practices from the bottom, and transforming the grocery trade from local enterprises to a nationwide industry. AU - Spellman, Susan V., CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - HD9321.5 DO - 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199384273 DO - doi ID - 756872 KW - Grocery trade KW - Small business LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199384273.001.0001 N2 - 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 practices from the bottom, and transforming the grocery trade from local enterprises to a nationwide industry. SN - 9780190495503 T1 - Cornering the marketindependent grocers and innovation in American small business / TI - Cornering the marketindependent grocers and innovation in American small business / UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199384273.001.0001 ER -