Introduction: corner store folklore -- From grog shops to grocery stores -- The keys to modernization -- Trust brokers on the road -- Avoiding the middleman -- Making small business big -- Conclusion: looking backward, moving forward
Summary:
Popular stereotypes of Rockwellian storekeepers have characterized grocery retailers as backward and resistant to modernizing impulses. Cornering the Market challenges these conventions to show that early grocers were important but unsung innovators, revolutionizing business practices from the bottom, and transforming the grocery trade from local enterprises to a nationwide industry