Shopper's Paradise

Retail Stores and American Consumer Culture

Arthur Asa Berger

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English

Brill
19 December 2019

Popular culture; Consumerism; Social theory; Impact of science & technology on society

Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Popular Culture

Shopper’s Paradise: Retail Stores and American Consumer Culture deals with the cultural, social and economic impact of different kinds of retail stores on American society. It has sections on some of the most important retail genres, such as Internet stores (Amazon.com), department stores (Neiman Marcus), coffee shops (Starbucks), big-box stores (Walmart, Costco) and a number of other kinds of stores such as dollar stores, malls, and farmers markets. It also has a discussion of consumer cultures. The subtext in the publication is the notion that shopping is connected with a desire to return to paradise, from which we were excluded due to Adam and Eve’s behavior in the Garden of Eden. Thus, the term “paradise” has two meanings. It is written in an accessible style and makes use of material from a variety of journalists and scholars who write about the retail industry and consumer cultures.

By: Arthur Asa Berger
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 1.2
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 226g
ISBN: 9789004408654
ISBN 10: 9004408657
Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Popular Culture
Pages: 136
Publication Date: 19 December 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Shopper’s Paradise. Retail Stores and American Consumer Culture Arthur Asa Berger Abstract Keywords 1 Introduction 2 Amazon.com 3 Department Stores 4 Shopping Malls 5 Supermarkets 6 Farmers Markets 7 Costco 8 Dollar Stores 9 Neiman Marcus (Formerly Neiman-Marcus) 10 CVS (Consumer Value Store) Pharmacies 11 Wal-Mart/Walmart 12 Starbucks 13 Consumer Cultures 14 A Consumer’s Odyssey: Everyday Life’s Routines and Its Many Stores 15 Coda Acknowledgments References List of Figures

Arthur Asa Berger, Ph.D. University of Minnesota (1965), is the author of more than 100 articles and 70 books on popular culture, media studies, communication, humor, and tourism. His books have been translated into nine languages. He is an inductee in the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication Hall of Fame, had a Fulbright to Italy and was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Argentina, Germany, and Belarus. His recent publications include: Applied Discourse Analysis (Palgrave, 2016), Marketing and American Consumer Culture (Palgrave, 2016), Cultural Perspectives on Millennials (Palgrave, 2018), Perspectives on Everyday Life: A Cross-Disciplinary Cultural Analysis (Palgrave, 2019), and Signs in Society and Culture (Nanjing Normal University Press, 2019).