From the birth of modern retail to shopping as a lifestyle, this work looks at the consumer revolution and how and why shopping has developed from being purely a necessity to a major leisure activity. Beginning with the industrial revolution and the start of purchasing for pleasure, the book looks a the birth of the department store, the huge growth of the supermarket, the uptopian shopping experience - the shopping mall, luxury designer shops and branding, as well as the phenomenon of TV and Internet shopping.
- ISBN10 0600597350
- ISBN13 9780600597353
- Publish Date 15 September 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 January 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Octopus Publishing Group
- Imprint Hamlyn
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 176
- Language English