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INDEX
advertising
of appliances, post-World War II,
by IKEA
purchasing of goods popularized by
on television
AFL-CIO
agribusiness
airline industry
Akerlof, George
Allied Stores
American Agriculture Movement
American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai (AmCham)
American Revolution
Ames
Amir, On
Anderson Little
Anne Klein
Anne Klein II,
Ann Taylor
anti-chain store movement
anticipation
Apple
Aquinas, Thomas, Saint
Archer Daniels Midland
architecture, of shopping malls
Ariely, Daniel
Armani
Armani Exchange
Asian Development Bank
assembly line
attribution perspective
Au Bonheur des Dames
(Zola)
(Zola)
auction fever
auctions
auditing, of overseas factories
Aunt Mid’s Produce
automobile manufacturing
Bahama Breeze
Baily, Martin Neil
Baldanzi, George
Baldridge, Letitia
bankruptcies
Barboza, David
bar codes
Barenberg, Mark
Bargain City
bargain hunting
Barneys
Basker, Emek
bazaar culture.
See
traditional marketplace
See
traditional marketplace
Bazin, Henri
beacon of incentive
Beckham, Sofie
behavioral economics
Ben & Jerry’s
Bergdorf Goodman
Bernstein, Henry
Bernstein, Jared
Best Buy
Big Lots
Black Friday
Bloomingdale’s
blue light specials
Boesky, Ivan
Bolton, Lisa
Bongiorni, Sara
Book of Bargains
(Sears catalog)
(Sears catalog)
Bradlees
brain’s processing system
brand dilution
brand names
breakage
Broda, Christian
Brooks Brothers
Brown, Nathan
Bruno, Robert
Burma
Burman, Bidisha
Bush, George W.
Business Week
Buy American movement
buyer-seller balance
Cahn, Lillian
Cahn, Miles
calor licitantis
(auction fever)
(auction fever)
capitalism
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
(Schumpeter)
(Schumpeter)
Cardin, Benjamin L.
Cargill
Carter, Jimmy
category killers
Caterpillar
chain stores
consolidation of retailers
department stores (
See
department stores)
See
department stores)
China
AmCham’s resistance to reforms in
disregard for workers’ rights, ramifications of
factories, working conditions in-
food imports from
land grabs
life in rural
migrant workers
poverty in
shipping containers
tainted toys and other goods
WTO membership of
Cicero
Circuit City
Citibank
citizen consumers
Cleeland, Nancy
clothing market
Coach
cognitive dissonance
Cohen, Lizabeth
competitive advantage
computers
Concord Enterprises
Conroy, Marianne
consistent pricing model
consolidation of retailers
Consumer Mart
Consumer Price Index (CPI), in 2007- 2008
Consumer Reports
consumers
behavior of
citizens as
rise of consumerism
union of
context of transaction, and pricing
Costco Wholesale Corporation
cost reductions
cotton gin
Coughlan, Anne J.
coupons
Craftsman, The
(Sennett)
(Sennett)
craftsmanship
discounters and
home construction and
mass manufacture, impact of
Crawford, Matthew B.
creative destruction
credit cards
Crescent Jewelers
Crystal Palace
Cullen, Michael
Culture of Narcissism, The
(Lasch)
(Lasch)
Dahaene, Stanislas
Dahlvig, Anders
Dai Jianjun
Damasio, Antonio
Darden Restaurants
Dawn of the Dead
(movies)
(movies)
Dawson, Erica
Dayton Hudson
decision regret
deflation
discounters and
income, in Great Depression
wage
Deluxe: How Luxury Lost its Luster
(Thomas)
(Thomas)
Denny’s Restaurant
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
department stores
discounter’s effect on, in 1970s,
legislative responses to
post-World War I growth of
protests against and criticisms of
Wanamaker’s stores
Woolworth’s
depression
of 1893,
Great Depression
Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
(Damasio)
(Damasio)
design
craftsmanship (
See
craftsmanship)
See
craftsmanship)
IKEA and (
See
IKEA)
See
IKEA)
de-skilling of labor
in gun manufacturing
IKEA and
Dior
Discount Dreams
(Conroy)
(Conroy)
discounters/discounting
anticipation
behavioral responses to
brand dilution
consumerism, rise of
cost reductions
deflationary impacts of
department stores and
economics of
elastic
versus
inelastic goods and services
versus
inelastic goods and services
emotional aspect of
Ferkauf’s founding of Korvette’s
growth, in 1960s,
markdowns (
See
markdowns)
See
markdowns)
mass production ennabling (
See
mass production)
See
mass production)
new technologies and
outlets (
See
outlet malls)
See
outlet malls)
post World War II boom and
selection at
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