The article is entitled “The Future of Shopping” and it’s a bit much even for diehards who shop for a deal like I do. It’s too bad it’s not on-line as it’s way to hard for me to rewrite it here, let me post some excerpts…

Need some comfort in you time of sorrow? According to the article:

Shopping has become a legitimate social activity, supplying the comfort that church and community once provided.

Okay I knew we were a shallow people, but I had no idea we’d reached such a low such that shopping would take the place of actually hanging out with friends!!

What, you say your local shops are too limited to help you? According to the article:

Outside Montreal, a 1,900,000-square-foot, $350-million megamall is now being developed by Ralph Stahl…When Lac Mirabel
opens in 2007 it will encompass Canada’s largest indoor aquarium, an artificial lake, a marina, a roller coaster, a food emporium, a recreational park, and, oh yes, many stores.

HOLY COW!!! I wonder if they’ll introduce wildlife too, to make the whole artificial experience that much closer to reality?

Are you, um, really, really attached to your shopping?

On Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, surrounded by beauty products in Sephora, she [Jessica Johnson] sat down by the fragrance counter and wept. “It seemed like anarchy to me” says Johnson…Johnson returned to Toronto determined to make sense of
her emotional outburst. Shopping she concluded in “The Good Shopper” (Penguin), to be published next month, is a means of finding ourselves.

I just thought it was a way for me to find a good deal, or a hot dress. I’ll tell you, I’ve been to Sephora and the only thing that made me weep about it was how it impacted my credit card at the end of the month