Supermarket

Author : Bobby Hall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982127152

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Supermarket by Bobby Hall Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The stunning debut novel from one of the most creative artists of our generation, Bobby Hall, a.k.a. Logic. “Bobby Hall has crafted a mind-bending first novel, with prose that is just as fierce and moving as his lyrics. Supermarket is like Naked Lunch meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest—if they met at Fight Club.”—Ernest Cline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ready Player One Flynn is stuck—depressed, recently dumped, and living at his mom’s house. The supermarket was supposed to change all that. An ordinary job and a steady check. Work isn’t work when it’s saving you from yourself. But things aren’t quite as they seem in these aisles. Arriving to work one day to a crime scene, Flynn’s world collapses as the secrets of his tortured mind are revealed. And Flynn doesn’t want to go looking for answers at the supermarket. Because something there seems to be looking for him. A darkly funny psychological thriller, Supermarket is a gripping exploration into madness and creativity. Who knew you could find sex, drugs, and murder all in aisle nine?

Author : Benjamin Lorr
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780553459401

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The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr Pdf

In the tradition of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore's Dilemma, an extraordinary investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store What does it take to run the American supermarket? How do products get to shelves? Who sets the price? And who suffers the consequences of increased convenience end efficiency? In this alarming exposé, author Benjamin Lorr pulls back the curtain on this highly secretive industry. Combining deep sourcing, immersive reporting, and compulsively readable prose, Lorr leads a wild investigation in which we learn: • The secrets of Trader Joe’s success from Trader Joe himself • Why truckers call their job “sharecropping on wheels” • What it takes for a product to earn certification labels like “organic” and “fair trade” • The struggles entrepreneurs face as they fight for shelf space, including essential tips, tricks, and traps for any new food business • The truth behind the alarming slave trade in the shrimp industry The result is a page-turning portrait of an industry in flux, filled with the passion, ingenuity, and exploitation required to make this everyday miracle continue to function. The product of five years of research and hundreds of interviews across every level of the industry, The Secret Life of Groceries delivers powerful social commentary on the inherently American quest for more and the social costs therein.

Author : Richard W. Longstreth
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262621428

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The Drive-In, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914-1941 by Richard W. Longstreth Pdf

Longstreth explores the early development of two kinds of retail space that have become ubiquitous in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. Richard Longstreth is one of the few historians to focus on ordinary commercial buildings—buildings usually associated with commercial builders and real estate developers rather than architects and thus generally overlooked by historians of "high" architecture. Here Longstreth explores the early development of two kinds of retail space that have become ubiquitous in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. One, external, is devoted to the circulation and parking of automobiles on retail premises. Longstreth analyzes the origins of this development in the 1910s and 1920s, with the super service station and then the drive-in market. The other type of space, internal, was introduced soon thereafter with the single-story supermarket. The most innovative aspect of the supermarket was how its interior was designed for high-volume turnover of a large selection of goods with a minimum of staff assistance. Longstreth focuses on Los Angeles, the principal center for the development of both kinds of space, during the period from the mid-1910s to the early 1940s. This richly illustrated study integrates architectural, cultural, economic, and urban factors to describe the evolution of retailing and how it has affected the urban landscape.

Author : Susan Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : American fiction
ISBN : NYPL:33433076072911

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The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner Pdf

Author : Shane Hamilton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300240849

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Supermarket USA by Shane Hamilton Pdf

This cultural history examines the global rise of American-style supermarkets during the Cold War era and how they shaped the way we eat today. Supermarkets were invented in the United States, and from the 1940s on they made their way around the world, often explicitly to carry American-style economic culture with them. This innovative history tells us how supermarkets were used as anticommunist weapons during the Cold War, and how their proliferation has shaped our current food system. The widespread appeal of supermarkets contributed to a “farms race” between the United States and the Soviet Union, as the superpowers vied to show that their contrasting approaches to food production and distribution were best suited to an abundant future. In the aftermath of the Cold War, US food power was transformed into a global system of market power, laying the groundwork for the emergence of our contemporary world, in which transnational supermarkets operate as powerful institutions in a global food economy.

Author : Felix Adamu Nandonde,John L. Stanton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000562712

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Supermarket Retailing in Africa by Felix Adamu Nandonde,John L. Stanton Pdf

This book surveys the landscape of supermarket retailing in Africa, showing how this expanding part of the retail sector is changing consumerism on the continent. Drawing on research covering retail formats, consumer behaviour, strategies, operation research, ICT, relationship marketing, and market linkage, the book investigates the many factors impacting the growth of supermarkets in Africa. The contributors employ theories, concepts, and methods in order to help us to understand changing consumer behaviour, the strategies used by suppliers to access supermarkets, the role of service suppliers in the growth of the sector, and ultimately how supermarkets can assist in making the market linkage between producers and consumers in Africa. The chapters provide a comprehensive exploration of modern retail, discussing its growth and future, identifying consumer preferences, as well as suggesting solutions to the challenges that retailers and suppliers on the continent face in developing the sector. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of the retail sector and retail management in Africa.

Author : Martin Kriesberg,Martin Leiman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Personnel management
ISBN : UVA:X030493161

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Improving the Effectiveness of Supermarket Managers by Martin Kriesberg,Martin Leiman Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Food prices
ISBN : UCAL:$B655033

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Consumer Problems of the Poor: Supermarket Operations in Low-income Areas and the Federal Response by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House Government Operations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117938303

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Consumer Problems of the Poor: Supermarket Operations in Low-income Areas and the Federal Response by United States. Congress. House Government Operations Pdf

Author : Robert P. King,Ephraim Leibtag,Ajay S. Behl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Food prices
ISBN : UIUC:30112096885543

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Supermarket Characteristics and Operating Costs in Low-income Areas by Robert P. King,Ephraim Leibtag,Ajay S. Behl Pdf

Author : A. Seth,Geoffrey Randall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230513426

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Supermarket Wars by A. Seth,Geoffrey Randall Pdf

Leading international food retailers have in recent years expanded beyond national boundaries and started to operate on a global scale. This book describes the current state of play, looking in detail at the main competitors worldwide and analyzing the factors underlying their successes and failures. The authors are leading commentators on this industry and identify the essential characteristics of a global strategy in food retailing and include many compelling examples.

Author : Cornelia Obitz
Publisher : diplom.de
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783836619639

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An empirical investigation of supermarket differentiation by Cornelia Obitz Pdf

Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: Shopping at supermarkets plays an important role in our all lives. Food consumption increased immensely over the past decades and transferred food retailing into a potential and profitable market especially for big supermarket chains in the UK. However this has been realised not only by a few enterprises, thus food retailing became a challenging and demanding business in a high competitive environment. In correlation with these facts the first question that comes in mind is how can all these supermarkets compete successfully and defend their market position?. It is generally agreed that competitive advantage is necessary for companies to be successful. Mintzberg explains that supermarkets have represented successful generic strategies in the past but they must go beyond this generic strategy and find a way of competing in this business. With this background differentiation turns out as a current problem in the field of food retailing. Above all, plenty of theories of competitive advantage for manufacturers exist but retailing is still a sparely investigated field. Furthermore food retailers in the UK are operating in a high competitive industry more than every other European country and Cox & Brittain describe grocery retailing in the UK as an interesting field of competitive battles. Thus, theories are applied especially to supermarkets in the UK. Hence, this study focuses on the largest supermarket chains in the UK and the role and importance of differentiation in the field of competitive advantage is investigated and questioned. Academic objectives of the dissertation: The objective of this dissertation is to enrich the profound and wide field of competitive advantage with new findings. With the investigation of differentiation in food retailing a so far scarce analysed but complex topic is enlightened. During the exploration of the literature it became apparent that differentiation strategies are only of value for companies when differences between companies or brands add value to customers. Hence, customer perception creates a further main part of the literature review and the research. An empirical study with customers is conducted to highlight the customer perception of differentiation strategies in the UK food retail industry. The aim of the study is to reveal to what dimensions customer perception can influence differentiation strategies. The end result of primary research will rectify whether theory and [...]

Author : Herbert R. Northrup,Gordon R. Storholm
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781512805024

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Restrictive Labor Practices in the Supermarket Industry by Herbert R. Northrup,Gordon R. Storholm Pdf

This timely and penetrating study provides new insights into a marketing institution that affects the food-shopping patterns and eating habits of most American families. It raises crucial questions about labor­-management relations in supermarkets and seeks to determine whether various labor practices are working against the best interests of the consumer and efficient marketing operations. Herbert R. Northrup and his Industrial Research group at the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce of the University of Pennsylvania employ the techniques of research and analysis in their investigation of the labor-management and collective bargaining structures. The final section of the study deals with the potentials for change presents details of technological progress, and suggests a new philosophy for and approach to labor relations in the industry. In addition to a detailed view of the contemporary situation the student of industry will find here a history of the growth and development of supermarkets and of the unionization movement. Founded in 1921 as a separate Wharton department, the Industrial Research Unit has a long record of publication and research in the labor market, productivity, union relations, and business report fields. Major Industrial Research Unit studies as published as research projects are completed. This volume is Study no. 44.

Author : Bruce E. Lederer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Egg trade
ISBN : UCD:31175029946434

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Eggshell Damage from End of Packing Line to Supermarket by Bruce E. Lederer Pdf

Author : Kathleen Krull
Publisher : StarWalk Kids Media
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781630834777

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Supermarket by Kathleen Krull Pdf

A new look at a familiar place that tells how it operates.