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Picture a familiar scene: long lines of shoppers waiting to check out at the grocery store, carts filled to the brim with the week's food. While many might wonder what is in each cart, Andrew Warnes implores us to consider the symbolism of the cart itself. In his inventive new book, Warnes examines how the everyday shopping cart is connected to a complex web of food production and consumption that has spread from the United States throughout the world. Today, shopping carts represent choice and autonomy for consumers, a recognizable American way of life that has become a global phenomenon. This succinct and and accessible book provides an excellent overview of consumerism and the globalization of American culture.

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"Warnes shows us how globalization, mechanized farming, refrigeration, and mass consumerism affect the way world consumers shop for food in supermarkets and how the global industrial food system encourages consumers to overeat." * Gastronomica *

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations

Entrance

1. Inside Views
2. Aristocratic Baskets
3. In the Supermarket
4. The Late Cart
5. Carts Unchained

Exit
Notes
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index

How the Shopping Cart Explains Global Consumerism

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 29 January 2019
      ISBN-13 9780520295292
      978-0520295292
      ISBN-10 0520295293
      Also in:
      Anthropology Consumerism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Picture a familiar scene: long lines of shoppers waiting to check out at the grocery store, carts filled to the brim with the week's food. While many might wonder what is in each cart, Andrew Warnes implores us to consider the symbolism of the cart itself. In his inventive new book, Warnes examines how the everyday shopping cart is connected to a complex web of food production and consumption that has spread from the United States throughout the world. Today, shopping carts represent choice and autonomy for consumers, a recognizable American way of life that has become a global phenomenon. This succinct and and accessible book provides an excellent overview of consumerism and the globalization of American culture.

      Trade Review
      "Warnes shows us how globalization, mechanized farming, refrigeration, and mass consumerism affect the way world consumers shop for food in supermarkets and how the global industrial food system encourages consumers to overeat." * Gastronomica *

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations

      Entrance

      1. Inside Views
      2. Aristocratic Baskets
      3. In the Supermarket
      4. The Late Cart
      5. Carts Unchained

      Exit
      Notes
      Acknowledgments
      Bibliography
      Index

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