Carried away : the invention of modern shopping
(Book)

"...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...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....delves into these and other forgotten histories of twentieth-century stores and their shoppers; after you have read it, the aisles of the local market will never seem quite the same." -- dust cover. Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-275) and index.

1360L,Lexile