Rachel Bowlby > Quotes

“Self-service’ puts all classes on the same shopping level, doing the work for themselves; the”
― Rachel Bowlby, Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping

“But the alternative to the living salesman was not, in the end, the machine; it was self-service.”
― Rachel Bowlby, Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping

“For the moment when fashion is fashion, it has no past and no future. The ‘latest’ fashion, la dernière mode, is also the ‘last’: for”
― Rachel Bowlby, Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping

“Shopping would be a relationship between the customer and the goods, with nothing and no one mediating between them.”
― Rachel Bowlby, Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping

“If you take away the presence of the salesman from the process of buying, you change the nature of shopping out of all recognition because you remove the element of interaction between two people. Such”
― Rachel Bowlby, Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping

“Food was seen primarily as a necessity, whereas clothes – necessary as they are – were the pre-eminent objects of fashion. This distinction made one of the fundamental contrasts in image between the grand department stores of the late nineteenth century, associated with luxury goods, and the supermarkets of the twentieth, associated with the basic necessities and principally with the sale of food; but at the same time, supermarkets were also taking food into the category of fashion.”
― Rachel Bowlby, Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping