On The Origins Of Self Service

Author : Franck Cochoy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317449751

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On The Origins of Self-Service by Franck Cochoy Pdf

Most marketing scholars implicitly consider independent merchants as conservative and passive actors, and study the modernization of retailing via department stores, chains and supermarkets. In this innovative study, Franck Cochoy challenges this perspective and takes a close look at the transformation of commerce through the lens of Progressive Grocer, an American trade magazine launched in 1922. Aimed at modernizing small independent grocery stores, Progressive Grocer sowed the seeds for modern self-service which spread in small retail outlets, sometimes well before the advent of the large retail spaces which are traditionally viewed as the origin of the self-service economy. The author illustrates how this publication had a highly influential role on what the trade considered to be best practice and shaped what was considered to be cutting edge. By displacing the consumer and their agency from the centre of analytic attention, this innovative book highlights the complex impact of social, technical and retailing environment factors that structure and delimit consumer freedom in the marketplace. This detailed critical analysis of the origins of self-service will be of interest to a wide variety of scholars not only in marketing and consumer research, but also in business history, sociology and cultural studies.

Author : Michael Palm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317287193

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Technologies of Consumer Labor by Michael Palm Pdf

This book documents and examines the history of technology used by consumers to serve oneself. The telephone’s development as a self-service technology functions as the narrative spine, beginning with the advent of rotary dialing eliminating most operator services and transforming every local connection into an instance of self-service. Today, nearly a century later, consumers manipulate 0-9 keypads on a plethora of digital machines. Throughout the book Palm employs a combination of historical, political-economic and cultural analysis to describe how the telephone keypad was absorbed into business models across media, retail and financial industries, as the interface on everyday machines including the ATM, cell phone and debit card reader. He argues that the naturalization of self-service telephony shaped consumers’ attitudes and expectations about digital technology.

Author : Lisa C. Tolbert
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780820364445

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Beyond Piggly Wiggly by Lisa C. Tolbert Pdf

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.

Author : Gina Arnold,John Dougan,Christine Feldman-Barrett,Matthew Worley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781501384523

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The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Record Store by Gina Arnold,John Dougan,Christine Feldman-Barrett,Matthew Worley Pdf

Once conduits to new music, frequently bypassing the corporate music industry in ways now done more easily via the Internet, record stores championed the most local of economic enterprises, allowing social mobility to well up from them in unexpected ways. Record stores speak volumes about our relationship to shopping, capitalism, and art. This book takes a comprehensive look at what individual record stores meant to individual people, but also what they meant to communities, to musical genres, and to society in general. What was their role in shaping social practices, aesthetic tastes, and even, loosely put, ideologies? From women-owned and independent record stores, to Reggae record shops in London, to Rough Trade in Paris, this book takes on a global and interdisciplinary approach to evaluating record stores. It collects stories and memories, and facts about a variety of local stores that not only re-centers the record store as a marketplace of ideas, but also explore and celebrate a neglected personal history of many lives.

Author : Alvin Hutchinson
Publisher : Chandos Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780081020340

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Science Libraries in the Self Service Age by Alvin Hutchinson Pdf

Science Libraries in the Self Service Age: Developing New Services, Targeting New Users suggests ways in which libraries can remain relevant to their institution. This book describes the myriad of new services and user communities which science librarians have recently incorporated into their routines. Where applicable, the book focuses on both researcher needs and the simple economics that emphasize the need for new service development. Science librarians will have to adapt to changing behaviors and needs if they want to remain a part of their organization’s future. As this trend has hastened science librarians to develop new services, many of them aimed at audiences or user groups which had not typically used the library, this book provides timely tactics on which to build a cohesive plan. Provides a list of practical, targeted services which science librarians can implement Presents unified topics previously only dealt with separately (data management services, scholarly communication, digital preservation, etc.) Considers economic and resource issues in developing new services Written by an experienced librarian at a global institution

Author : Michael Palm
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317287209

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Technologies of Consumer Labor by Michael Palm Pdf

This book documents and examines the history of technology used by consumers to serve oneself. The telephone’s development as a self-service technology functions as the narrative spine, beginning with the advent of rotary dialing eliminating most operator services and transforming every local connection into an instance of self-service. Today, nearly a century later, consumers manipulate 0-9 keypads on a plethora of digital machines. Throughout the book Palm employs a combination of historical, political-economic and cultural analysis to describe how the telephone keypad was absorbed into business models across media, retail and financial industries, as the interface on everyday machines including the ATM, cell phone and debit card reader. He argues that the naturalization of self-service telephony shaped consumers’ attitudes and expectations about digital technology.

Author : Kim Humphery
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521626307

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Shelf Life by Kim Humphery Pdf

Supermarkets, in all their everyday mundanity, embody something of the enormous complexity of living and consuming in late twentieth century western societies. Shelf Life, first published in 1998, explores the supermarket as a retail space and as an arena of everyday consumption in Australia. It historically situates and critically discusses the everyday food products we buy, the retail environments in which we do so, the attitudes of the retailers who construct such environments, and the diverse ways in which all of us undertake and think about supermarket shopping. Yet this book is more than narrative history. It engages with broader issues of the nature of Australian modernity, the globalisation of retail forms, the connection between consumption and self-autonomy, and the highly gendered nature of retailing and shopping. It interrogates also the work of cultural critics, and questions recent attempts to grasp what it means to consume and to be a 'consumer'.

Author : Martin P. J. Edwardes
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781787356306

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The Origins of Self by Martin P. J. Edwardes Pdf

The Origins of Self explores the role that selfhood plays in defining human society, and each human individual in that society. It considers the genetic and cultural origins of self, the role that self plays in socialisation and language, and the types of self we generate in our individual journeys to and through adulthood. Edwardes argues that other awareness is a relatively early evolutionary development, present throughout the primate clade and perhaps beyond, but self-awareness is a product of the sharing of social models, something only humans appear to do. The self of which we are aware is not something innate within us, it is a model of our self produced as a response to the models of us offered to us by other people. Edwardes proposes that human construction of selfhood involves seven different types of self. All but one of them are internally generated models, and the only non-model, the actual self, is completely hidden from conscious awareness. We rely on others to tell us about our self, and even to let us know we are a self.

Author : Pamela E. Swett,S. Jonathan Wiesen,Jonathan R. Zatlin
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0822340690

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Selling Modernity by Pamela E. Swett,S. Jonathan Wiesen,Jonathan R. Zatlin Pdf

DIVA historical study of modern German advertising, from the Imperial period through the 1970s, that explores mass consumption in modern society and the relationship between business mentalities, artistic creation, consumer behavior, and ideology. /div

Author : Lydia Langer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317007777

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Transformations of Retailing in Europe after 1945 by Lydia Langer Pdf

After World War II, structures, practices and the culture of retailing in most West European countries went through a period of rapid change. The post-war economic boom, the emergence of a mass consumer society, and the adaptation of innovations which already had been implemented in the USA during the interwar period, revolutionized the world of getting and spending. But the implementation of self-service and the supermarket, the spread of the department store and the mail order business were not only elements of a transatlantic catch up process of 'Americanization' of retailing. National patterns of the retail trade and specific cultures of consumption remained crucial, and long term processes of change, starting in the 1920s or 1930s, also had an impact on the transformation of retailing in post-war Europe. This volume presents a series of case-studies looking at transformations of retailing in several European countries, offering new insights into the structural preconditions of the emerging mass consumer societies and also into the consequences consumerism had on the practices of retailing.

Author : Multisystems, Inc,Transit Cooperative Research Program
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Barrier-free design
ISBN : 9780309067591

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A Toolkit for Self-service, Barrier-free Fare Collection by Multisystems, Inc,Transit Cooperative Research Program Pdf

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 80: A Toolkit for Self-Service, Barrier-Free Fare Collection addresses the full range of issues and parameters-including policy and enforcement issues, operational issues, and capital and equipment issues-that an agency must consider in determining the applicability of self-service fare collection systems.

Author : Johnny Acton,Tania Adams,Matt Packer
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1402743025

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Origin of Everyday Things by Johnny Acton,Tania Adams,Matt Packer Pdf

Describes the origins of over 400 everyday items, arranged in alphabetical order.

Author : Ralph Geoffrey Towsey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Marketing
ISBN : NYPL:33433045198789

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Self-service Retailing by Ralph Geoffrey Towsey Pdf

Author : Oliver Gassmann,Karolin Frankenberger,Michaela Choudury,Michaela Csik
Publisher : Pearson UK
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781292327143

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The Business Model Navigator by Oliver Gassmann,Karolin Frankenberger,Michaela Choudury,Michaela Csik Pdf

A strong business model is the bedrock to business success. But all too often we fail to adapt, clinging to outdated business models that are no longer promising the results we need. This new edition builds on the well-known methodology of the first edition to allow you to innovate, test and implement new business models within your industry. Discover the idea of business model innovation, from structuring the process of innovation of a company’s business model to encouraging outside-the-box thinking. With expert authors, The Business Model Navigator combines learning research with evidence of high practical impact, allowing you to master the transformation journey and lead your business to success.

Author : Russell McCalley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780313076909

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Patterns of Management Power by Russell McCalley Pdf

Management is helpless without the power to direct and control the pursuit of well-defined corporate goals. McCalley identifies six distinct patterns of power within organizations, arguing that management can and must use all of them creatively and ethically for the organization's benefit. Top-down position power is familiar, but not the only option. McCalley identifies others along with their sources, patterns of development, and common use—often abused—in recognizable management situations. Managers need to use their authority and power to drive the energy of dynamic organizations, asserts McCalley, but they must learn to do it without creating factionalism and conflict, and without subjugating subordinates. Surprising insights into the mystery of why otherwise competent managers often fail are mixed with practical wisdom for executives, teachers, and students who will one day assume positions of power. Among the book's special characteristics is McCalley's comprehensive discussion of the impacts that every type of power, authority, influence, and leadership can have, what their basic sources are, and how their structural and functional effects impact the ability to manage.