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Wheeling food products around the store… and away: the invention of the shopping cart, 1936-1953

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Catherine Grandclement (Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Ecole des Mines de Paris)
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Analyzes the invention and early development of the shopping cart (supermarket trolley) in the US using original archival sources.

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Paper provided by Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), Mines ParisTech in its series CSI Working Papers Series with number 006.

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Length: 30 pages
Date of creation: Dec 2006
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Keywords: Business history; innovation; mass consumption; material culture; shopping cart; Sylvan N. Goldman; Orla E. Watson; United States of America;

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L81 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Retail and Wholesale Trade; e-Commerce
O31 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
O33 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
O34 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Intellectual Property Rights
N82 - Economic History - - Micro-Business History - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-
N72 - Economic History - - Economic History: Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, and Other Services - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-
Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Social Norms and Social Capital; Social Networks Economic Anthropology

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