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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)

Abstract

Analyzes the invention and early development of the shopping cart (supermarket trolley) in the US using original archival sources.

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  • Catherine Grandclement, 2006. "Wheeling food products around the store… and away: the invention of the shopping cart, 1936-1953," CSI Working Papers Series 006, Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), Mines ParisTech.
    • Handle: RePEc:emn:wpaper:006
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    Keywords

    Business history; innovation; mass consumption; material culture; shopping cart; Sylvan N. Goldman; Orla E. Watson; United States of America;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • L81 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Retail and Wholesale Trade; e-Commerce
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • O34 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
    • 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 - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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    1. Keranjang belanja in Wikipedia Indonesian
    2. Shopping cart in Wikipedia English
    3. Тележка для покупок in Wikipedia Russian

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