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Retail Nation by Donica Belisle, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Donica Belisle

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The experience of walking down a store aisle – replete with displays, advertisements, salespeople, consumer goods, and infinite choice – is now so common that we often forget retail stores barely existed a century ago. Retail Nation traces Canada’s transformation into a modern consumer nation back to an era when Eaton’s, Simpson’s, and the Hudson’s Bay Company fostered and came to rule the country’s shopping scene. Between 1890 and 1940, department stores revolutionized selling and shopping by parlaying cheap raw materials, business-friendly government policies, and growing demand for low-priced goods into retail empires that promised to meet citizens’ needs and strengthen the nation. Some Canadians found happiness and fulfillment in their aisles; others experienced nothing more than a cold shoulder and a closed door. The stores’ advertising and public relations campaigns often disguised a darker, more complicated reality that included strikes, union drives, customer complaints, government inquiries, and public criticism. This vivid account of Canadian department stores in their heyday showcases department stores as powerful agents of nationalism and modernization. But the nation that their catalogues and shopping experience helped to define – white, consumerist, middle-class – was more limited than nostalgic portraits of the early department store suggest. | Retail Nation by Donica Belisle, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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