quotations about shopping
Shop 'til you drop.
AMERICAN PROVERB
The secret idea she was forming of an afterlife gave her the foothold she needed to endure the agonies to come, a newfound courage and optimism which found instant expression through SHOPPING.
LUCY ELLMANN
Dot in the Universe
I also happen to have a serious medical condition called "mall foot." Mall foot is a sharp, painful ache that starts in the arches and radiates up the shins, forcing me to find one of those benches outside the store. A lot of guys get this. It's a real thing. Swear to god.
ANDY HELLER
"Anything but shopping", Daily Press, August 10, 2017
He had decided that if he ever returned to his old job he would create a special level of hell, an enormous inescapable shop of attractive but useless and overpriced items that the damned would wander for eternity in the cold delusion that this was what they wanted. And then Nerys had taken him to IKEA and Clovenhoof realised the humans had once again beaten him to it.
HEIDE GOODY
Clovenhoof
I like my money right where I can see it: hanging in my closet.
SARAH JESSICA PARKER
Sex and the City
They came, they saw, they did a little shopping.
ANONYMOUS
graffiti on the Berlin wall after travel restrictions were lifted and thousands of East Berliners flooded into West Berlin, Newsweek, December 4, 1989
Most guys have about 73 calories of shopping energy, and once these calories are gone, they're gone for the day -- if not the week -- and can't be regenerated simply by having an Orange Julius at the Food Fair.
DOUGLAS COUPLAND
Microserfs
I bought two items to get a third free, and then I returned the two. I should be Shopper of the Year.
JAROD KINTZ
This Book is Not for Sale
You're window shopping, just window shopping
You're only lookin' around
You're not buyin', you're just tryin'
To find the best deal in town
HANK WILLIAMS
"Window Shopping"
I already know what my addiction is
I be looking for labels, I ain't looking for love
I shop for purses while I walk out the door
Don't cry, buy a bag and then get over it
FERGIE
"Labels Or Love"
It was a puzzle for men how women never got tired of shopping, even if there was nothing to buy.
KENNETH EADE
An Involuntary Spy
Shopping is no longer simply about the utility of exchanging money for a product. Consumers are wielding their purchasing power to demand retail experiences that are both meaningful and personalized, as well as convenient and ubiquitous.
DENISE PURTZER
"How AI's Retail Reinvention Is Transforming The Shopping Experience", Retail TouchPoints, September 5, 2017
Shopping figures as the antithesis of property in this sense, in that it represents a pure mobility of selves and objects. One moment you are this, have this; the next you move on. In this slide from the compulsory to the compulsive, there are no duties, no continuities, no consequences and no history, only a succession of shopping instants.
RACHEL BOWLBY
Carried Away
She felt the cold blast from the sterile air conditioning on her bare arms and thighs, as she ambled down the center of the shopping complex's ground floor. The scene was a swirl of candy bright lights--the Victoria's Secret fuchsia signboard, signboards which lured one to purchase "confidence," or "sexual appeal," or whatever it was that was being advertised--the fluorescent lights in each store, contrasting with the shiny, black-tiled walls and eye-catching speckled marble tiles on the ground. One could lick the floor--the tiles were spotless, clean like the fake air she was breathing in, like the atoms and cells in her that were decaying in stale neglect.
JESS C. SCOTT
Jack in the Box
My idea of taking a risk is losing my birth control pills or shopping at Saks without a sale.
BRUCE WAGNER
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
Make money money, go shopping!
Take money money, go shopping!
No matter what the weather, winter spring or fall
We'll be doin it, "at the mall"
GANG STARR
"The Mall"
It saddened me that sometimes shopping was far more perilous than dealing with zombies and vampires.
ANTON STROUT
Dead Waters
Drunk shopping is a real thing. And it will creep up when you least expect. Your inhibitions are lowered, you're cruising through the World Wide Web, and there it is: that new pair of boots you most certainly do not need. You buy them anyway, to your surprise they actually arrive in the mail, and you love them way too much to ever send them back. The New York Times actually reported on intoxicated consumer purchases of everything from $3 sunglasses with a $17 shipping cost to a $10,000 motorcycle and a trip to New Zealand. I'll stick to the window shopping for now.
TRISHA PHILLIPS
"I Quit Alcohol for 31 Days, and Here's What Happened to My Bank Account", Cheatsheet, September 9, 2017
HO HO HO
No here we go again...
Only 364 more shopping days 'til Christmas
Manger scenes are on sale get a free Baby Jesus
CLEDUS T. JUDD
"Only 364 Shopping Days 'Til Christmas"
Pleasantly bustling shoppers streamed past us on Bond Street -- smart-suited men and well-heeled women whose commitment to luxury goods glazed over their eyes like a bad case of malaria.
TYNE O'CONNELL
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