- Title : Cornering the Market: Independent Grocers and Innovation in American Small Business
- Author : Susan V. Spellman
- Rating : 4.71 (547 Vote)
- Publish : 2014-1-18
- Format : Hardcover
- Pages : 240 Pages
- Asin : 0199384274
- Language : English
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Cornering the Market challenges these conventions to demonstrate that nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century grocers were important but unsung innovators of business models and retail technologies that fostered the rise of contemporary retailing. The development of mass production, distribution, and marketing, the growth of regional and national markets, and the introduction of new organizational and business methods fundamentally changed the structures of American capitalism. In popular stereotypes, local grocers were avuncular men who spent their days in pickle-barrel conversations and checkers games; they were backward small-town merchants resistant to modernizing impulses. Spellman details the remarkable achievements of American small businessmen, and their major contributions to the making of "modern" enterprise in the United States. It was a powerful combination that businesses from chain stores to Walmart continue to exploit today.. Without abandoning l
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