(READING PLUS) Modern-Day Retail

What is the central idea of this selection?

Advances in technology have led to changes in how the retail industry does business

Choose the sentence that suggests that before online grocery shopping most people could not afford delivery

But it was only avaiable to those with the means to hire personal shoppers or delivery people

Read this excerpt. Which one of the following would make the best title if this passage was a chapter in a book?

Early Retail Innovators

Let's say you want the convenience of ready-to-prepare meals delivered to your door on a regular basis. You might want

HelloFresh

According to this text, Benjamin Franklin invented the concept of mail order catalogs in the mid-1700s. How does this excerpt relate?

Retail businesses continue to use catalogs today to influence customers' decisions about purchases.

Based on this selection, what makes stores without cashiers possible?

app technology

According to the author, Amazon "changed the way people bought and sold books." Which word describes this aspect of e-commerce?

disruptor

Authors use patterns called text structures... In this excerpt, which text structure does the word "arguably" suggest?

proposition and support

Together, these two excerpts show that Uber started UberRush as a service that would

support local retail businesses

Compared with Blue Apron and other meal subscription services, clothing subscription services

use a computer to decide what customers want