But traditional values initially formed roadblocks. Before 1890, for example, visual merchandising was identified with snake-oil salesmen and circus trickery. Thus, the merchants who opened America's first department stores needed to invoke powerful devices to gain public acceptance for the new material culture. Because most people in those days considered staring into windows to be rude, merchants left nothing to chance. It boasts peaches, downy and golden, when peaches have no right to be.
Strawberries glow therein when shortcake is a last summer's memory.