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, [...]
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 [...]
For some reason, people keep asking me to name the ONE place I’d shop – if I had to choose one place – and lately, I’ve been naming Barney’s Co-Op offline, and Shopbop online. But I think if money was no object, and I was down to my goal (healthy) weight, I would shop exclusively [...]
