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Title: Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture by Sharon Zukin ISBN: 0-415-94597-6 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: November, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Gotta Go, There's a Sale at the Mall
Comment: Professor Zukin explores why we shop and how it affects us, individually and as a society. She looks at the history of shopping, from a brief look at ancient Roman olive oil shops in Pompeii to a more elaborate history of department stores in New York. All that is interesting, but I found the sections on current shopping the most intriguing.
Zukin explores superstores and warehouse stores, then moves on to internet shopping. She discusses Amazon.com and eBay, even examining the merit of allowing customers to review the products for sale. It seems even negative reviews are good for sales, since more time spent on the site yields more sales. Who knew?
One of the most gripping sections of Point of Purchase is the interview with a young Hispanic New Yorker who describes his venture into Tiffany's to buy his girlfriend an expensive gift. The interactions between him and the security guards, the sales clerks, the other customers, as well as the way he tells his story and the interviewer retells it are material for a myriad of analyses.
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Title: Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream by M. Jeffrey Hardwick, Victor Gruen ISBN: 0812237625 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Call of the Mall : The Author of Why We Buy on the Geography of Shopping by Paco Underhill ISBN: 0743235916 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 09 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: One Nation under Goods: Malls and the Seductions of American Shopping by James J. Farrell ISBN: 1588341526 Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Trading Up: The New American Luxury by Michael Silverstein, Neil Fiske ISBN: 1591840139 Publisher: Portfolio Pub. Date: 09 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness by Virginia Postrel ISBN: 0060186321 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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