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

Catherine Grandclement
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Catherine Grandclement: Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Ecole des Mines de Paris

No 6, CSI Working Papers Series from Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), Mines ParisTech

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

Keywords: Business history; innovation; mass consumption; material culture; shopping cart; Sylvan N. Goldman; Orla E. Watson; United States of America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L81 N72 N82 O31 O33 O34 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2006-12
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