Cornering the market [electronic resource] : independent grocers and innovation in American small business / Susan V. Spellman.

9780190495503 (electronic book)

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.

English

1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) : illustrations

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199384273 doi

HD9321.5 .S64 2016eb

381.4564130973

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.

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.

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