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Managing leaks: Shoplifting in US grocery retailing 1922-1969
(2017)
The purpose of this paper is to further develop the general program of managing
overflows by attending to the managing of leaks. Specifically, the paper explores efforts
to manage the problem of ...
Price display technologies and price ceiling policies: Governing prices in the WWII and Postwar US economy (1940-1953)
(2021)
This article explores the politics and technologies of price fixing and price display in US grocery stores in the midtwentieth
century. Drawing on the literature on market devices and policy instruments, it complements ...
An ethnography of Electronic Shelf Labels. The resisted digitization of prices in contemporary supermarkets
(2017)
Contemporary retail markets have experienced and are experiencing an important digitization
shift in the form of computers and associated technologies. Among a large array of digital
innovations, Electronic Shelf Labels ...
The technologies of price display: mundane retail price governance in the early twentieth century
(2018)
How are everyday retail pricing practices and devices linked to large-scale, market wide movements in retail prices? This paper investigates how the development and spread of
seemingly insignificant price display ...