How the future of shopping was shaped by its past

How pop-ups, home delivery and fast fashion go back as far as the 1800s. Rachel Bowlby, professor of comparative literature at UCL tells the story of how the pandemic changed the way we shop – with many ‘new’ initiatives actually reinventing old ways of doing things. You can read the text version of this in-depth article here . The audio version is read by Jane Wing in partnership with Noa, News Over Audio. Listen to more articles from The Conversation, for free, on the Noa app . The music in In Depth Out Loud is Night Caves by Lee Rosevere . In Depth Out Loud is produced by Gemma Ware. This story was edited by Paul Keavney and Mike Herd and came out of a project at The Conversation called Insights. You can read more stories in the series here .

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How the future of shopping was shaped by its past is an episode from In Depth, Out Loud by The Conversation.

This episode is 27:25 long.

This episode was published on Apr 1, 2022.

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