TY - BOOK AU - Spellman,Susan V. TI - Cornering the market: independent grocers and innovation in American small business SN - 9780190495503 (ebook) : AV - HD9321.5 .S64 2016 U1 - 381.4564130973 23 PY - 2016/// CY - New York, NY PB - Oxford University Press KW - Grocery trade KW - United States KW - History KW - Small business N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Popular stereotypes of Rockwellian storekeepers have characterized grocery retailers as backward and resistant to modernizing impulses. Cornering the Market challenges these conventions to show that early grocers were important but unsung innovators, revolutionizing business practices from the bottom, and transforming the grocery trade from local enterprises to a nationwide industry UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199384273.001.0001 ER -