Download or read book The Shopping Experience written by Pasi Falk and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-09-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This shrewd and probing book seeks to theorize shopping as an autonomous realm. It avoids the reductionist characteristics of economics and marketing. At the same time it avoids the moralizing tone of many contemporary discussions of shopping and consumption. It also contains an appendix which gives a brief history and selected literature of shopping.