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WotD: Retail therapy
Retail therapy sounds good right about now.
Shopping used to be fun.
You’d go into a store, browse their offerings looking for a hidden gem or wait for something to jump out and scream ‘BUY ME!’.
These days, going shopping is more like a dance with death:
- Wear a mask.
- Stand two metres away from everyone.
- Touch nothing and try to get in and out as fast as possible.
Currently, there’s very little retail therapy and too much retail stress.
Retail therapy was supposed to be shopping to ease your burden, not get more.
Retail therapy involves shopping as a form of stress release.
The joy of getting new things can temporarily help you feel better.
I remember when I first came to Japan, the standard answer to the question, ‘What do you do in your free time?’ was either sleeping or shopping.
I used to think Japanese women were the most rested and happy people in the world.
When all the stores open and we can feel safe in them, there will be a retail therapy boom like the world has never seen before.
People will be buying anything they can get their hands on.
The term shop ’til you drop’ will take on a whole new meaning.
Smartphone batteries will run dry from too much Apple Pay usage, and credit cards will melt from all the use they’ll be getting.
Things will be good again.
We’ll buy all kinds of stuff we don’t need because that’s what retail therapy is all about; buy because it makes you feel good and worry about buyer’s remorse tomorrow.
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