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A Theory of Grocery Shopping: Food, Choice and Conflict
Dr. Shelley Koch
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Description for A Theory of Grocery Shopping: Food, Choice and Conflict
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Grocery shopping is an often ignored part of the story of how food ultimately gets to our pantry shelves and tables. A Theory of Grocery Shopping explores the social organization of grocery shopping by linking the lived experience of grocery shoppers and retail managers in the US with information transmitted by nutritionists, government employees, financial advisors, journalists, health care providers and marketers, who influence the way we think about and perform the work of shopping for a household's food. The author provides insight into the contradictory messages that shape how consumers provision their households, and details ... Read more
Grocery shopping is an often ignored part of the story of how food ultimately gets to our pantry shelves and tables. A Theory of Grocery Shopping explores the social organization of grocery shopping by linking the lived experience of grocery shoppers and retail managers in the US with information transmitted by nutritionists, government employees, financial advisors, journalists, health care providers and marketers, who influence the way we think about and perform the work of shopping for a household's food. The author provides insight into the contradictory messages that shape how consumers provision their households, and details ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857851512
SKU
V9780857851512
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About Dr. Shelley Koch
Shelley L. Koch is Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology and Assistant Director of the Masters of Arts program in Community and Organizational Leadership at Emory & Henry College in Emory, Virginia, USA.
Reviews for A Theory of Grocery Shopping: Food, Choice and Conflict
This book dramatically illustrates the work and significance of food provisioning. Scholars wishing to identify problems in the food system or offer prescriptions for change would do well to read this text.
Tracey Deutsch, Department of History, University of Minnesota
This work represents a much-needed link to books focusing on aspects of the US food chain from ... Read more
Tracey Deutsch, Department of History, University of Minnesota
This work represents a much-needed link to books focusing on aspects of the US food chain from ... Read more