Supermarkets Transformed: Understanding Organizational and Technological Innovations

by John P. Walsh

Over the last forty years, the small grocery stores of the 1950s have given way to the huge, technologically advanced supermarkets and superstores of the 1990s. John P. Walsh analyzes the changes in the supermarket industry, the advent and implementation of various technologies, and the effects of those innovations on store management, workers, and customers. He relates his observations to general theories about work and labor of the past forty years...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813519691
• ISBN13: 9780813519692
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.