Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 134 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
English edition
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9781350042100
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9780857851536
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0857851535
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9781472503183
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9780857851505
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0857851500
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9780857851512
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0857851519
Content:
1. The economic and social context of grocery shopping -- 2. The work of grocery shopping -- 3. Shopping and the nutrition discourse -- 4. The efficient housewife discourse -- 5. The consumer control discourse -- 6. Competing discourses and the work of food shopping.
Content:
"Grocery shopping is an often ignored part of the story of how food ultimately gets to our pantry shelves and tables. A Theory of Grocery Shopping explores the social organization of grocery shopping by linking the lived experience of grocery shoppers and retail managers in the US with information transmitted by nutritionists, government employees, financial advisors, journalists, health care providers and marketers, who influence the way we think about and perform the work of shopping for a household's food. The author provides insight into the contradictory messages that shape how consumers provision their households, and details how consumers respond to these messages. The book challenges the consumer choice model that places responsibility on the shopper for making the "right" choice at the grocery store, thereby ignoring the larger social forces at work, which determine what products are available and how they get to the shelves."--Back cover
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-128) and index
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Barrierefreier Inhalt: Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350042100
