Cheap

The High Cost of Discount Culture

Business & Finance, Marketing & Sales, Customer Service, Consumer Behaviour, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Popular Culture
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Author: Ellen Ruppel Shell ISBN: 9781101135471
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Publication: July 2, 2009
Imprint: Penguin Books Language: English
Author: Ellen Ruppel Shell
ISBN: 9781101135471
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication: July 2, 2009
Imprint: Penguin Books
Language: English

A myth-shattering investigation of the true cost of America's passion for finding a better bargain

From the shuttered factories of the Rust Belt to the strip malls of the Sun Belt-and almost everywhere in between-America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low price. This pervasive yet little- examined obsession with bargains is arguably the most powerful and devastating market force of our time, having fueled an excess of consumerism that blights our landĀ­scapes, escalates personal debt, lowers our standard of living, and even skews of our concept of time.

Spotlighting the peculiar forces that drove Americans away from quality, durability, and craftsmanship and towards quantity, quantity, and more quantity, Ellen Ruppel Shell traces the rise of the bargain through our current big-box profusion to expose the astronomically high cost of cheap.

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A myth-shattering investigation of the true cost of America's passion for finding a better bargain

From the shuttered factories of the Rust Belt to the strip malls of the Sun Belt-and almost everywhere in between-America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low price. This pervasive yet little- examined obsession with bargains is arguably the most powerful and devastating market force of our time, having fueled an excess of consumerism that blights our landĀ­scapes, escalates personal debt, lowers our standard of living, and even skews of our concept of time.

Spotlighting the peculiar forces that drove Americans away from quality, durability, and craftsmanship and towards quantity, quantity, and more quantity, Ellen Ruppel Shell traces the rise of the bargain through our current big-box profusion to expose the astronomically high cost of cheap.

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