[Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with its arms up yelling let’s buy it what a bargain!

For in some ways the world was like a shopping centre, and he himself was a doubtful customer, often ineffectual, being talked into buying things he didn’t want, things indeed which nobody in their right...

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...

It’s not like it’s hard to be decent and respectful and well-behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do do my own grocery shopping, and I do take...

I am a great customer. I’m not a loyal customer, but that’s what makes me great—my willingness to shop other brands for better buys.

Difference between TV and the internet was how far you sat from the screen. TV was an 8 foot activity, and you were a consumer. The internet was a 16 inch activity, and you participated....

I had a dream about you, you invited me shopping and I was so excited at the thought we were having a “day date” after we entered the mall you had dropped your wallet and...

Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.

I’ve sold my records outta shopping carts on the street.

Does the size even matter?” I dare not ask my ex-wife.

So you’re going to Walmart, huh? Those checkout lines can take an eternity to get through. Well, pick me up some chips while you’re there.

At the meeting you behaves exactly as Marathi novelists of the last century tell is husbands do in sari shops.

Christmas comes but once a year, starts in August ends in July

What’s real is always worth it,’ she explained to me. ‘Look how it’s made.’ She showed me the shoulders, the way they were knit together with a separate yoke instead of a seam. ‘You’ll wear...

I’ve no idea when I’m going to wear it, the girl replied calmly. I only knew that I had to have it. Once I tried it on, well… She shrugged. The dress claimed me.

Contrary to what many predicted two years ago, … we found a robust market for seniors in many major cities. By careful shopping, consumers can save hundreds of dollars in their individual HMO and Medicare...

I like seeing little kids in shopping carts. It’s good practice for when they turn 18 & have to spend the rest of their lives in jail cells.

I think they’ve been shopping this around for a while,

She had not come to the shopping centre to buy shoes; she had come to buy food, and there was a big difference between shopping for food and shopping for shoes, and that difference concentrated...

I have gone into town to buy a few last things we need for the expedition: Peruvian wasp repellent, toothbrushes, canned peaches, and a fireproof canoe. It will take a while to find the peaches,...

At the end of the day, taking 50% off a $250 dress still means walking out of the store $125 poorer.

Consumers presented with six choices on an item were twice as likely to buy as consumers overwhelmed with 24 varieties of the same item.

My wife loves window shopping. As for me, I’m more into curtains.

we might have to eat the dog” poor, but still poor. Poor like, no insurance poor, and going to McDonald’s was a really big excitement poor, wearing socks for gloves in the winter poor, and...

It was a stark choice: shoes or food; beauty or sustenance; the sensible or the self-indulgent. “I’ll take the shoes,” she said firmly.

But you’ve loads of shoes,” he bellowed joyfully. I shook my head sadly. Men just don’t get it, do they? They’re definitely missing the shoe chromosome.

The starting point for ‘discounts’ may be the manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP), an arbitrarily high price that no one will ever pay. By crossing out the high MSRP, retailers are handing shoppers a psychological...

Nobody ever goes to that store to shop because it’s too crowded.

Edinburgh has had a huge increase in out-of-town shopping in recent years and we have to decide whether we have reached the point where it’s unsustainable.

To travel is to shop.

Carrie: Honey, if it hurts so much, why are we going shopping?Samantha: I have a broken toe, not a broken spirit.

I’d rather stub out cigarettes on my tongue than go shopping.

I’m still trying to figure out the secret relationship between the woman and the mall!

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.

If I had all the money in the world, I’d love seeing my name on billboards, buildings, and battleships. The only thing I wouldn’t like seeing my name on would be a credit card. Especially...

I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.

You have savings?” she was astonished.As a woman who lived on the very extreme edges of her budget, whose credit card bills were a source of monthly concern, the idea of savings was just so...

Toilet paper was either bleached white or unbleached gray, yet there were more than a dozen kinds of ketchup and about 30 brands of cookies. I approved of their priorities.

Shopping is really complicated if you are a girl.

Bling” is not an indication of riches. It is a product of value-based spending, to enrich the pockets of those outside of ones sphere of influence…the haves’ bleeding the have-nots’.

Lots of stores have self-checkout lanes now. That’s clever. They get us to buy their goods—and do their work too. Instead of paying cashiers to check us out, it’s like they’ve enticed us to pay...

But with each step she took, Mythili realized why most people don’t go shopping alone. It’s because this mind of ours gets pretty damn busy. It starts analyzing every little stimulus you receive. And because...

The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe in the raw greed which hangs in the air like vapour. As the late afternoon darkness falls, the lights...

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.

A coffin with wheels would make a great shopping cart. I’ll bet a hollowed-out body would hold a lot of soup.

They said I was a valued customer, now they send me hate mail.

You can look in every direction and find a competition or an event going on. Even if you’re not involved in playing one of the sports being offered, you can find anything you want to...

Ah remember walkin along Princes Street wi Spud, we both hate walkin along that hideous street, deadened by tourists and shoppers, the twin curse ay modern capitalism.

Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.

A shopping cart flipped upside down forms a cage that I use to protect myself from consumerism.