Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Audiobook11 hours
Beyond Piggly Wiggly: Inventing the American Self-Service Store
Written by Lisa C. Tolbert
Narrated by Laural Merlington
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this audiobook
Patented in 1917, Piggly Wiggly was by far the most influential self-service store of the early twentieth century. Before 1940 it was the only self-service chain with a national distribution network, but it was neither the first nor the only version. Beyond Piggly Wiggly reveals the importance of Piggly Wiggly in the invention of self-service and goes beyond the history of a single firm to explore the role of small business entrepreneurs who invented the first self-service stores in a grassroots social process.
During the 1920s and 1930s a minority of enterprising grocers experimented with a wide variety of (sometimes wacky) design ideas for automating shopping. They created specialized stores designed as enclosed retail systems that went far beyond open display techniques to construct unique physical and psychological advantages for automating salesmanship. Beyond Piggly Wiggly offers the first perspective on the national scale of experimentation and connects the southern Jim Crow origins of self-service to the national history of this mass retailing method. Empirical analysis of store arrangements demonstrates how small stores that have previously been overlooked or undervalued as quaint anomalies were integral to the creation of supermarkets. Ultimately, self-service was more than a business decision; it was a fundamentally new social practice.
During the 1920s and 1930s a minority of enterprising grocers experimented with a wide variety of (sometimes wacky) design ideas for automating shopping. They created specialized stores designed as enclosed retail systems that went far beyond open display techniques to construct unique physical and psychological advantages for automating salesmanship. Beyond Piggly Wiggly offers the first perspective on the national scale of experimentation and connects the southern Jim Crow origins of self-service to the national history of this mass retailing method. Empirical analysis of store arrangements demonstrates how small stores that have previously been overlooked or undervalued as quaint anomalies were integral to the creation of supermarkets. Ultimately, self-service was more than a business decision; it was a fundamentally new social practice.
Unavailable
Author
Lisa C. Tolbert
LISA C. TOLBERT, who grew up in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, teaches American cultural history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is the author of Constructing Townscapes: Space and Society in Antebellum Tennessee.
Related to Beyond Piggly Wiggly
Related audiobooks
Beyond Piggly Wiggly: Inventing the American Self-Service Store Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNon-Obvious: How to Think Different, Curate Ideas & Predict The Future Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Salesman of the Century Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Entrepreneur Revolution: How to Develop your Entrepreneurial Mindset and Start a Business that Works Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Six Billion Shoppers: The Companies Winning the Global E-Commerce Boom Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Herding the Zebra Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGuide to Paco Underhill's Why We Buy by Instaread Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of Chris Anderson's Free Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSUMMARY - The Long Tail: Why The Future Of Business Is Selling Less Of More By Chris Anderson Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYour Creative Mind: How to Disrupt Your Thinking, Abandon Your Comfort Zone, and Develop Bold New Strategies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We Are All Weird: The Myth of Mass and The End of Compliance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Innovation On Tap: Stories of Entrepreneurship from the Cotton Gin to Broadway's Hamilton Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe True Story of The Bilderberg Group Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Art of Selling Your Business: Winning Strategies & Secret Hacks for Exiting on Top Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Power of Modern Media Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSUMMARY - The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble To Get Inside Our Heads By Tim Wu Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of Steve Dennis's Remarkable Retail Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBecoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5SUMMARY - To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others By Daniel H. Pink Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Iconic Advantage: Don't Chase the New, Innovate the Old Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5SUMMARY - What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise Of Collaborative Consumption By Rachel Botsman And Roo Rogers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBig Mall: Shopping for Meaning Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Difference: The one-page method for reimagining your business and reinventing your marketing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Industries For You
Presto!: How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Artpreneur: The Step-by-Step Guide to Making a Sustainable Living From Your Creativity Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Excellence Wins: A No-Nonsense Guide to Becoming the Best in a World of Compromise Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Disney's Land Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lego Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World’s Imagination Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5All You Need to Know About the Music Business: 11th Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRingmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sam Walton: Made in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Be Our Guest: Perfecting the Art of Customer Service Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Setting the Table Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Age of Fentanyl: Ending the Opioid Epidemic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You): A How-To Guide from the First Family of Podcasting Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Burn Book: A Tech Love Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mind Your Mindset: The Science That Shows Success Starts with Your Thinking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5All The Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Beyond Piggly Wiggly
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews