TY - BOOK AU - Jessen,Ralph AU - Nembach-Langer,Lydia ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Transformations of retailing in Europe after 1945 T2 - The history of retailing and consumption AV - HF5429.6.E9 T73 2012eb U1 - 381/.109409045 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Farnham, England, Burlington, Vt. PB - Ashgate KW - Retail trade KW - Europe KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; List of tables of figures -- Notes on the contributors -- General editor's preface -- Introduction: transformations of retailing in Europe after 1945 / Ralph Jessen and Lydia Langer -- Consumer society revisited : affluence, choice and diversity / Frank Trentmann -- Americanization of retailing? : the introduction of self-service -- The coming of the supermarket : the processes and consequences of transplanting American know how into Britain / Gareth Shaw, Adrian Bailey, Andrew Alexander, Dawn Nell and Jane Hamlet -- The long way to the supermarket : entrepreneurial innovation and adaptation in 1950s-1960s Italy / Emanuela Scarpellini -- How West German retailers learned to sell to a mass consumer society : self-service and supermarkets between "Americanization" and "Europeanization", 1950s-1960s / Lydia Langer -- Beyond self-service : the limits of "Americanization" in post-war West German retailing in comparative perspective / Jan Logemann -- New and old places of consumption -- Automatic trade : self-service and the polycentric early history of slot machines / Angelika Epple -- Mail order retailing in Britain since 1945 : credit community and technology / Richard Coopey -- What sex are sex shops? : the retailing of erotica in West Germany before the legalization of pornography / Elizabeth Heineman -- "Everything that exists in capitalism can be found in the department store" : the development of department stores in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-2000 / Ralf Banken -- Scientific knowledge, technical innovations and the retail trade -- Managing the unmanageable : the professionalization of market and consumer research in post-war Europe / Stefan Schwarzkopf -- Irradiating fish : improving food chains : retailers as mediators in a German innovation network : 1968-1977 / Karin Zachmann -- Cool alliances : freezers, frozen fish, and the shaping of industry-retail relations in Norway, 1950-1960 / Terje Finstad -- The barcode revolution in German food retailing / Annika Menke -- Index; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10579694 ER -