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Supermarket Savvy: The Everyday Information-Seeking Behavior of Grocery Shoppers
- Information & Culture: A Journal of History
- University of Texas Press
- Volume 47, Number 2, 2012
- pp. 176-205
- 10.1353/lac.2012.0010
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This article examines the information-seeking behaviors of grocery shoppers. Beginning with a review of the historical development of supermarkets in America, it then synthesizes information-seeking behaviors of shoppers in grocery stores with everyday life information-seeking theories. Grocery stores and supermarkets have changed dramatically over time, and business practices evolved in order to meet consumer demands for information. Shoppers’ information-retrieval behaviors, including information seeking, information gathering, and information acquisition, were employed in novel ways as information resources emerged but remained largely unchanged over time.