How did the ways in which businesses sold their products to consumers change in the second half of the nineteenth century?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. The increased output that resulted from industrialization gave rise to new approaches to
marketing.
2. Between 1867 and 1900, spending on advertising increased tenfold.
3. R. H. Macy in New York, John Wanamaker in Philadelphia, and Marshall Field in Chicago
turned the department store into a national institution.
4. Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward sold to rural customers through mail-order catalogs.
5. Advertising, brand names, chain stores, and mail-order houses brought Americans into a national market.
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