Retail NationThe experience of walking down a store aisle replete with displays, advertisements, salespeople, consumer goods, and infinite choice is so common that we often forget retail stores barely existed a century ago. Retail Nation traces Canadas transformation into a modern consumer nation back to an era when Eatons, Simpsons, and the Hudsons Bay Company ruled the shopping scene. Between 1890 and 1940, department stores revolutionized selling and shopping