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recession, of 2008,
Red Lobster
reference pricing
regret
Retail Merchants Association
Reyes, Isabel
Ricardo, David
rice
Riceland Foods
Riedinger, Jeff
Roberts, Paul
Robinson-Patman Act
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roper, Elmo
Rubin, Rick
rule of law
S. S. Kresge Company
Safire, William
Saint Laurent, Yves
Saks Fifth Avenue
salaries.
See
wages
Sara Lee Corporation
Saturday Evening Post
Saunders, Charles
scanners
Schindler, Robert
Schumpeter, Joseph
Scott, H. Lee, Jr.
Sears
Sears, Richard Warren
Sears catalog
secondary processing system, of brain
Sedona, Arizona
selection, in discount stores
selective discounting
self-service ideal
Sennett, Richard
Shaiken, Harley
shipping containers
Shiv, Baba
Shoppers World Discount Department Store
shopping carts
Shore, Steve
shrimp
farming
imports of
taste of wild
vs.
farm-raised
Silk, Tim
slavery, cotton production and
Smith, Adam
Smith, Christopher H.
Smith, Merit Roe
Smithfield Foods
Soberman, David A.
Sold American
(McGovern)
Southdale
Spartan
stagflation
staleness factor
standard of living
post-World War II era
during World War II,
Starbucks
steam engine
Stichting Ingka Foundation
strikes
subsidies, farm
subsistence farming
suburbs
decentralized shopping
Korvette’s move into
Subway
Sudan
Summers, Lawrence
supermarkets
Suri, Rajneesh
”A Survey of Outlet Mall Retailing: Past, Present and Future” (Coughlan and Soberman)
Sysco Corporation
tainted goods, from China
Target
taste, cheap food and
Taylor, Frederick Winslow
television
Testament of a Furniture Dealer, The
(Kamprad)
textile industry
Thailand
Thaler, Richard
Thomas, Dana
thrift
Tiffany
Time
Timmer, Peter
Tommy Bahama
”Toward a Positive Theory of Consumer Choice” (Thaler)
toy imports
traditional marketplace
Treasure Island
Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911
Truman, Harry
Trump, Donald
Tversky, Amos
Two Guys
Ultimatum Game
unemployment
in 2008,
Feds targeting of employment to fight inflation
in Great Depression
Uniform Product Code [UPC]
unions.
See
labor unions
United Auto Workers
United Steelworkers Union
United Textile Workers
U.S.-China Business Council
USDA.
See
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
utility maximization theory
Vanity Fair Clothing Company
Vietnam
Vinka, Maria
Volcker, Paul
vortexes
Vuitton, Georges
Vuitton, Luis
W. T. Grant
wages
at Caterpillar
CEO-employee pay disparities
at Costco
deflation
Eisenhower era
factory workers, during 1940s,
of Ford’s assembly line workers
low wages paid by discounters
minimum wage
profitability-prosperity correlation
Wal-Mart’s impact on
Woolworth’s cheap labor
Wall Street Journal
Wall Street
(movie)
Wal-Mart
food prices and
lobbying efforts by
price changes in community after arrival of
savings per family, study on
scheduling system for employees
wages and benefits in surrounding region
Walton, Sam
Wanamaker, John
Wanamakers.
See
John Wanamaker & Co.
Wang Chang Chu
Warren, Elizabeth
Washington, George
Washington Post
Watt, James
Wegman, Danny
Wegman, Jack
Wegman, Robert
Wegman, Walter
Wegmans Food Market
consistent pricing model
customer loyalty
education
individuality of stores
local producers as suppliers
philosophy of
wages and benefits
”What Prices Reveal About the Mind” (Schindler)
White Sale
Whitney, Eli
cotton gin
gun manufacture
Whole Foods Market
Wilburn, Chuck
Wilson, Eric
Wood, Robert E.
Woolco Department Stores
Woolworth, Frank W.
Woolworth Company
workers’ rights, in China
working conditions, in China
World Bank
World Is Flat, The
(Friedman)
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Wrigley’s chewing gum
Yam, Siva
Year Without “Made in China,” A
(Bongiorni)
yield management
Young, Andrew
Zaltman, Gerald
Zamore, Wig
Zara
Zayres
Zhen Xiaoyu
Zola, Emile

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