Jul 13
(This is the second of a five-part roundtable discussion of Ellen Ruppel Shell’s Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture. You can check out the first part here .) Kathleen Maher writes: I am not quite finished reading Cheap , but I have to admit that I’m finding it more interesting than I expected, seeing that I generally don’t read non-fiction and can’t stand shopping — especially for bargains. I enjoyed the quick history of American department stores and such trivia as the in
