Shopping Experiences
Established in the early 1900s, these stores offered urban buyers "who needed better prices and more widespread locations" access to cheap items, including cosmetics and clothing.
What were dime stores?
This famous travel agency was first formed in England in the 1840s.
What is Thomas Cook?
Made from the sap of a tree that was native to the "steam jungles" of Singapore and Penang, this resource was used to fashion of variety of home goods.
What is gutta-percha?
The first advertising agencies were launched in the United States in this decade.
What is the 1870s?
This industry was often connected with furniture emporia, until retailers realized that customers did not want to encounter this sobering reality while shopping.
What is undertaking, or funerals?
These shopping streets typically entailed a covered passageway with shops on both sides. First created in Paris, Vienna, and Berlin, they "only came to England after the Napoleonic Wars."
What are arcades?
This famous travel agency was first established in the United States in the 1870s.
What is American Express?
To help rural and small-town customers learn about their products and shop through mail order sales, this American company began publishing an extensive catalog. Customers could even order a prefabricated home.
What is Sears and Roebuck?
To ensure that customers could continue buying their products, by 1900, several companies began building this characteristic into their products.
What is planned obscolescence?
In the 1920s, some tour companies began to devise leisure travel for this age group--previously ignored because of presumptions that this social group was more likely to be confronting "great poverty."
What is the elderly/older people?
This "authentically English invention" consisted of "cavernous buildings" that "featured counters let to individual traders." The first of these provided stalls to families who had lost loved ones in the French wars.
What are bazaars?
The first adult soccer club was formed in England in this year.
What is 1858?
In this year, British manufacturers produced 32 million pieces of wallpaper--an impressive achievement made possible, in part, by the British government's cancellation of excise taxes on paper.
What is 1874?
This term was developed in the 19th century to describe the "compulsion" some customers, supposedly middle-class women, felt to steal items from department stores.
What is kleptomania?
In the early 1900s, manufacturers began to produce special items for this particular age group. Teddy Roosevelt inspired one product for these particular consumers.
What are children?
The very first one of these new sites of consumerism opened in Paris in the 1830s.
What are department stores?
This American spectator sport was invented around 1900.
What is football?
By 1930, this was the "second most common grocery item, after bread, to be found in the American home."
What is soap?
Peter Stearns argues that this "vice" had to be "re-evaluated" as as to encourage women to purchase items that would help them "look one's best."
What is vanity?
Starting in the 1890s, these specific types of magazines featured advertisements "for the London furnishing houses."
What are women' periodicals?
Macy's created an annual Thanksgiving Day parade in this year to encourage Christmas shopping.
What is 1924?
This amusement park ride was invented in the 1890s?
What is the Ferris Wheel?
According to Deborah Cohen, customers who visited the HJ Benjamin & Sons Furniture warehouse in the East End of London could peruse 300 varieties of this type of furniture.
What is a sideboard?
Deborah Cohen argues that department stores added amenities like reading rooms and tea salons so that women would stop seeing shopping as a necessity and instead view it as this?
What is a pleasure?
During WWI, what specific product did manufacturers give to soldiers?
What are cigarettes?