Shopping Cart Theory, Cart Narcs, and the history of the shopping cart. This is the culture war now
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More reading (I get 10% of book sales through these links):.
How the Shopping Cart Explains Worldwide Consumerism by Andrew Warnes (https://bookshop.org/a/14437/9780520295292).
” Piggly Wiggly” in The Anthropocene Evaluated by John Green (https://bookshop.org/a/14437/9780593412428).
” Prosumer Industrialism” by George Ritzer” (https://doi.org/10.1111/tsq.12105).
” The Development of the Shopping Cart” by Catherine Grandclément (https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00122292v2).
” On the Introduction of Shopping Carts in American Grocery Stores” by Franck Cochoy (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1350508408098921).
” Publicizing Goldilocks’ Choice at the Supermarket” by Franck Cochoy and Catherine Grandclément.
0:00 Intro: Shopping Cart Theory.
4:59 Part 1: Lazybones.
12:39 Part 2: A Quick History of the Shopping Cart.
20:29 part 2.5: return your cart.
21:35 Part 3: Surveilling the Grocery store.
27:38 Outro.
Video essay created by Théo Evans.
” Not Responsible For Damage Caused by Shopping Carts” by Mike Mozart (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeepersmedia/15257283888) is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/).
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