Marc Levinson
From modest beginnings as a tea shop in New York, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company became the largest retailer in the world. It was a juggernaut, the owner of nearly sixteen thousand stores and dozens of factories and warehouses, and in 1929 it became the first retailer to sell $1 billion in goods—in a single year. But its explosive growth made it a mortal threat to hundreds of thousands of mom-and-pop grocery stores. Main
...In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization
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