Area Man Goes to Drugstore
Matthew Yglesias went shopping in a Walgreens in Washington D.C., and boy is he impressed.
Buzz Bissinger’s Shopping Addiction
This story about Buzz Bissinger's shopping addiction in GQ is totally crazy and surprisingly frank, and is a fun thing to read during lunch today while we're all eating our sad sandwiches and bag of baby carrots.
Why Do We Only Buy Coffee and Bananas “Fair Trade”?
But why, asks Foreign Policy's War of Ideas blog, is coffee pretty much the only thing Americans buy "free trade"?
Sometimes Shopping Can Pay
Stories like this one about a bowl that was purchased for $3 and then sold at auction for $2.2 million are good to keep in the card catalog of reasons why it sometimes is okay and even good, actually, to purchase things. You never know what you’re actually buying! You could be buying the world.
The Quest for the Perfect Bag
I live in a city, so I don’t need a car, and I won’t be buying a home anytime soon (or maybe ever), so the way I see it, the biggest spending decision that faces me for the foreseeable future is a one that involves a purse.
Paper Luxury Goods
Moleskine, the maker of fancy notebooks and other paper products is going public and will be entering the Italian stock exchange.
Yes You Can Go a Year Without Buying Clothes! I Did It And So Can You
Do you think about new outfit ideas when you’re bored?
Ancient Shopping
Mary Beard reviewed Claire Holleran's Shopping in Ancient Rome: The Retail Trade in the Late Republic and the Principate in The London Review of Books, and discussed what ancient commerce might have looked like.
