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    		• Shell, Ellen Ruppel, 1952-
     
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    		• Discount houses (Retail trade) -- United States.
     
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    		• Consumer behavior -- United States.
     
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    Cheap [electronic resource] : the high cost of discount culture /
    by Shell, Ellen Ruppel, 1952-
    [Old Saybrook, Conn.] : Tantor Media, 2009.
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    Read by Lorna Raver.
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    Duration: 11:33:20.
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    Mode of access: World Wide Web.
    Contents: 
    Discount nation -- The founding fathers -- Winner take nothing -- The outlet gambit -- Markdown madness -- Death of a craftsman -- Discounting and its discontents -- Cheap eats -- The double-headed dragon -- The perfect price.
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    Raver, Lorna.
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    From the shuttered factories of the rust belt to the look-alike strip malls of the sun belt---and almost everywhere in between---America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low price. This pervasive yet little examined obsession is arguably the most powerful and devastating market force of our time---the engine of globalization, outsourcing, planned obsolescence, and economic instability in an increasingly unsettled world.
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