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The True Meaning of Shopping

If you think shopping is a simple act based on simple human needs, you’re sadly mistaken. Either that or you’re a really good, amazingly efficient and unemotional shopper. For most consumers, shopping takes on meaning beyond a basic exchange of goods and currency, serving as therapy, entertainment, sport, drug, and sometimes, um, torture? Right now, [...]

Down to the Wire: Still Plenty of Holiday Shopping to Do

The elves better get busy, there’s a lot of shopping left to do. Despite the strong start to the holiday shopping season, the majority of Americans only completed about half of their holiday shopping in the final days leading up to Christmas, a new study has found. This is not the first survey to show that [...]

Retail Shopping Trends in China

One in four shoppers know the prices of all the items regularly purchased and half of key city shoppers and 44% of non-key city shoppers know the prices of most items. As China slowly but surely eases out of the economic recession, Chinese consumers have changed their shopping habits. In order to thrive in this [...]