Shelf Life: Supermarkets and the Changing Cultures of Consumption

by Kim Humphery

Book Overview

This book offers a history and cultural analysis of the supermarket and of everyday shopping in twentieth-century Australia. It discusses the rise of the supermarket in the United States and Britain, and its eventual emergence in Australia in the 1960s. This is contrasted with the demise of the counter service grocery store. As well, the views of shoppers in Australia toward the new supermarkets are documented through the use of oral history. More...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521623162
• ISBN13: 9780521623162
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"