Selfridge: The Life and Times of Harry Gordon Selfridge

Selfridge: The Life and Times of Harry Gordon Selfridge - Paperback

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Selfridge: The Life and Times of Harry Gordon Selfridge - Paperback

Selfridge: The Life and Times of Harry Gordon Selfridge - Paperback

by Fergus Mason
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Just for a moment try to put every shopping trip you've ever made out of your head. Imagine a different world. Imagine that all the goods for sale are locked away in cabinets and to handle them, or even to examine them closely, you need to ask a shop assistant to open it up for you. Imagine that within seconds of entering a store a floorwalker approaches you and asks if you're planning to buy something - then, when you say "I'm just looking," rudely tells you to leave. Imagine any attempt to return faulty or unsuitable goods being met with ridicule, obstruction or a flat refusal to help you.

Until the late 19th century people didn't have to imagine that; it was reality. For anyone alive today a visit to the average store back then would convince you that they didn't really want to sell you anything. The idea of customer service was an alien one. Stores sold things. If you wanted to buy them, fine. If you didn't they weren't really interested. Browsing was strongly discouraged and impulse buys were almost unheard of. Shopping was something you did when you had to. It certainly wasn't something anyone enjoyed.

Then, in the late 1880s, one man came along and changed all that. His name was Harry Gordon Selfridge and this is the story of his life.
ISBN9781629179117
Author Fergus Mason
PublisherGolgotha Press
GenreBiography and Business
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2016
LanguageENG- English
Pages74
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Cary Abbott is a retired U.S. Marine Master Sergeant. He grew up traveling around the United States and in doing so developed a very active imagination. He dreamed of being a screenwriter but spent his non-dreaming time having adventures in the Corps with his friends, his wife and their three children. Cary has also worked as a background actor in several movie and TV shows and a security supervisor at celebrity events such as the Oscars, the Emmy's, Soul Train and MTV Award shows. He currently lives with his family in New York and is actively working on dream video recorder and on time traveling digital camera. Fergus Mason was born in southwest Scotland and went to university in Glasgow. After graduating he joined the British Army and served in Bosnia, Northern Ireland, Kosovo and Iraq. Looking for something new after 14 years he somehow ended up in Afghanistan as a civilian contractor, which was pretty much like being in the Army but with better food. Finally he decided to become a freelance writer, as he has always enjoyed writing as a hobby. Fergus lives in Germany with an annoying cat.

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