Summary: Once Upon A Shop By Jeanette Winterson

It contributed to establishing Sammy’s naive, immature tone because it contrasted greatly with the symbols that Sammy carries. He pitied his 22-year-old, married coworker, "I forgot to say he thinks he's going to be the manager some sunny day, maybe in 1990 when it's called the Great Alexandrov and Petrooshki Tea Company or something”. The setting helped to locate the tone of the story as naive and immature because it was a place that Sammy didn’t belong. In his words, there was an obvious sense of sarcasm and a disdaining attitude towards the convenient store. He unfavored the idea of spending one’s entire adulthood in such a setting, as his teenage identity, and immaturity didn’t fit in to what the convenient store symbolized—the realistic world. Unlike his colleague, who is only a few years older and had a family, he still had his aspirations and teenage dreams that he wanted to pursue. His naive and immature tone was shown through as he felt proud to serve the swimsuit girls, instead of those adult customers who hovered to Stokesie’s line. He felt as if he was favored, or chosen. The setting built the naive and immature tone as he concluded that he connected with the girls in the convenient store, the epitome of adulthood while holding his superiority as an adult. His immaturity and naiveness suggested to him as if he was a rebel against the adult world, a protector of the girls, which then led to the dramatic irony

Cleaning up down South: supermarkets, ethical trade and African horticulture is a piece by Susanne Freidberg published in Social and Cultural Geography journal in 2003 (Freidberg, 2003). Susanne Friedberg holds PhD from UC Berkely and is a Professor of Geography in Darmouth College, New Hampshire (“Susanne Freidberg,” n.d.). In the article the author argues that the ethical standards have become fetishised. The UK supermarkets compliance with such standards edges on paranoia. It does not mean that the supermarkets care about these standards from moral point of view but that the compliance is driven by fear of bad

Shopping, a common activity conducted by almost everyone at least once a month, is such a normal subject in our everyday life, one barely puts any thoughts into the potential semiotic explanations behind it. According to the two essays, “The Signs of Shopping” and “The Science of Shopping,” Shopping has significant impacts on one’s self-identification. It is a two way straight, the consumers’ shopping styles can also influence the economic status of the retails businesses.

There are multiple details that stood out as particularly true to life in my view. One was the nariartator that it is telling the story/ his view point main character mentions what check out aisle number. It mentions how the three girls looked. The character payed attention to how the girl that seem to be the leader was walking saying “she came down a little hard on her heels, as if she didn’t walk in her bare feet much” this quote helps you picture how the person and might help picture what the girl was walking like. He gave details to where he was and what he was doing when the three girls was doing. He mentions that “I’m in the third check-out slot with my back to the door so that I didn’t see them until they had reach the bread” this helps the reader to set up an mental image of the store as they are reading.

There is a lot of quotes throughout this store to describe them as a whole or indiviaual. “We’re just numbers to them, mere slaves to the emperor. You can tell the family is suffering and helpless as you read and see how the mom and son are acting and feeling. Overall this was an amazing book , like I was explain in my thesis statement that people can relate to this store of a youn Japanese boy losing his father who whom he was around everyday. That’s why why whn you read the store you get deep into . It’s also amazing how the author of this novel has written two novels and is only noticed for those two that she wrote. That’s how you know that you are really the lady of the year. The chacters in the book are the main

Malcolm Gladwell is currently a non-fiction writer for The New Yorker. After college, he took a journalism position in Indiana and later took a position in Washington. In 1996, he moved to New York, where he is today. He has written five books and each has been on the New York Times best seller list (Famous Authors). In his first year of working as a journalist for The New Yorker, he wrote, “The Science of Shopping.” In this piece, Gladwell objectively evaluates Paco Underhill’s research within the business industry. Underhill “would have from a hundred to five hundred pages and pages of carefully annotated tracking sheets and anywhere from a hundred to five hundred hours of films” for each experiment that he conducts (99). With Underhill’s determination and research, and Gladwell’s journalistic qualities, this report changes the way anyone views shopping.

The authors are able to convey the theme of poverty by creating similar settings in New York City and Ireland. Lutie, the main character of The Street, walks down the frigid sidewalk of New York observing the setting surrounding her. The author illustrates the cold by writing, “She shivered as the cold fingers of the wind touched the back of her neck…” (Petry). This quote shows the way the author portrays the wind. She uses personification to give it life.

The stark contrast between the setting of the vision and the discount store suggests that the main character is greatly dissatisfied with her life. Being pulled into the vision, she experienced a “sudden burst of light, an explosion of inspiration, [and] a fleeting illumination” (Homes). In this world, she owns a house with “untouched by reality” with “everything just as you would want it to be”. She sees this perfect house as the embodiment “the life she is supposed to live”, reflecting the fact that she desires material goods and wealth. Furthermore, she sees “not only the future but a pathway”, indicating that she feels limited and aimless in her life. Yet, with no pomp or gush of energy as before, she was pulled back into this reality with

A & P by John Updike is set within the confines of a grocery store and describes the interactions between the main character Sammy, who is a cashier, and three girls who walk into the store “in nothing but bathing suits”. The three girls are completely out of place in the grocery store with nothing but their bathing suits, and their disobedience towards the moral standards of those in the store is the basis of the argument between conformity and nonconformity. In A & P, Updike uses various strategies to portray conformity as a negative, cruel, and overbearing entity, while nonconformity is made beautiful, striking, and daring. One of the most effective strategies Updike uses to portray the differences between conformity and nonconformity in A&P is through the use of diction. Rather than using dull, subtle words, Updike uses considerably stronger word choice in an effort to contrast the

Supermarkets also claim that their economic leverage enables them to benefit local communities by building stores and providing social and economic regeneration packages. One such example is Linwood, on the outskirts of Glasgow (Allen, 2009). The closure of a main employer left the centre of Linwood economically scarred. A proposal to build a new Tesco supermarket in the area and attract other special retailers to the ailing Town Centre was met with enthusiasm by local residents. Supporters of supermarkets advocate that everyone within the supply chain (customers, communities and suppliers) benefit from supermarkets, a concept Dennis Wrong terms the “positive sum game” (Allen, 2009).

Throughout Dinkytown’s many metamorphoses in the past half-century, storeowners have unhinged their signs, boxed their goods, and left behind blank storefronts for the next crop of entrepreneurship — but their histories are immortalized in the wistful memories of many who frequented their shops.

Michael Miller’s book, The Bon Marché: Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store, 1869-1920, is an expansive and interesting look back on a era of Parisian history that is best represented by its then-current trend and social innovation, the department store. The book gives a fascinating account of the store from its beginning to eventual common place status in 1914. The book gives an insight on the factors in which the store saw success, such as the management, the labor, and new marketing. It also gives light to the social factors that made the store possible (i.e education and economy).

The original store was a retail greenhouse building on the ground of Gloria’s family farm land. In 1982 Gloria's family gave them several commercially zoned acres where John and his brother built and constructed a building for retail. The greenhouse was used to grow their products along with having the land; it was beneficial because it provided a very low overhead.

The marketing strategy of Marini’s is that they want to be true to themselves by selling only the product they are known for and Marini’s like to use holidays to they favor to sell their product to the consumers. Marini’s use a variety of holiday to promote the product, for instance they use valentine day as one of the holiday to sell more candy ad chocolate through the website. Marini’s also promote the history of the store by having the history of Marini’s on the website; Marini’s show their history to the customers to show that they are a family business, which has been there for four generations now. By entering the store, you will see the history of the Marini’s family on one of the wall, which make customer curious about the business and making consumer curious to know more about the place and they history make buyers come again with their family at the store.

Throughout the novel, The Romance of a Shop, by Amy Levy, money was constantly brought up and referenced in almost all decisions being made. As the novel starts out it shows how important money is going to be throughout the rest of the book. The book is based around four sisters, Fanny, Gertrude, Lucy, and Phyllis, and how they must adapt to life after their father passes away leaving the sisters very poor. This leads them to open a photography shop as a way of making money. Which leads to see how money impacted courtship in the late nineteenth century, as it was seen in the novel that the sisters Aunt Caroline told Fanny to not waste her time on a Mr. Marsh because he simply was not rich enough to advance her in her life. Lastly, for