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 a 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 early department stores, until retailers realized that customers didn't want to encounter this sobering reality while shopping.
What is undertaking? What is 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 make sure that customers would continue to buy their products, by 1900, several companies began building this characteristic into their products.
What is "planned obsolescence"?
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". (Stearns)
What is the elderly?
This "authentically English invention" consisted of "cavernous buildings" that "featured counters let to individual traders."
What are bazaars?
The first adult soccer club was formed in England in this year.
What is 1858?
In this year, British manufactures 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 late 19th century to describe the "compulsion" some consumers--especially middle-class women--felt to steal items from department stores.
What is kleptomania?
In the early 1900s, manufactures began to produce special items for this particular age group, including toy soldiers, dolls, and stuffed animals.
What are children?
The first of these types of shopping experiences first open 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" needed to be "re-evaluated" so 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 (according to Deborah Cohen) featured advertisements "for the London furnishing houses."
What are women's periodicals?
Macy's created an annual Thanksgiving Day parade in this year to encourage Christmas shopping.
What is 1924?
This amusement device--designed to take you around and around--was invested 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 who 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?
To create a steady supply of future customers, during WWI cigarette manufacturers began supplying cigarettes to this specific population group.
What are troops?