MATT ALT

• Fashion shifted to high gear in the last twenty years when trends started cropping up faster and clothes became inexpensive.
• Shopping used to be an occasional indulgence earlier, but due to online shopping and rising income, it has become a hobby.
• Fast fashion is ...

• The day after Thanksgiving was a natural time for shoppers to head into town and hit the department store. Most families were still together from the prior day’s feast, and few middle-class folks were required to work.
• Big-city shopping districts were anchored by d...

Shopping can be socially acceptable because consumerism is continually pushed on us in the forms of posters, adverts, and signs.

Shopping is also a way of life: You need food and clothing from stores. Even if you try to stop compulsive buying by avoiding the stores in person, there is stil...