The First Full Shelves: Gazeta Stołeczna and Warsaw's First Supermarket, 1990–1994.
In: Contemporary European History, Jg. 32 (2023-11-01), Heft 4, S. 652-667
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Zugriff:
After the end of communism, foreign direct investment in Eastern Europe increased dramatically. In December 1990, the Austrian chain BILLA opened the first foreign-owned supermarket in Poland. I examine foreign-owned supermarkets as key spaces of encounter between West and East in which neoliberal ideas about urban space, everyday life, material consumption and retail were promulgated, contested and routinised. Examining coverage of the Warsaw BILLA shops in Gazeta Stołeczna, the local edition of the widely read and arguably most trusted daily newspaper in Poland, I draw from literature in consumer history as well as economic and urban geography alongside concepts from business and marketing to argue that local actors, and in particular the emerging independent press, helped naturalise neoliberal values about consumption and retail in early post-communism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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The First Full Shelves: Gazeta Stołeczna and Warsaw's First Supermarket, 1990–1994.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Valtin-Erwin, Leah |
Zeitschrift: | Contemporary European History, Jg. 32 (2023-11-01), Heft 4, S. 652-667 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2023 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 0960-7773 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1017/S096077732200011X |
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