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Retail Therapy Means Higher Margins

Retail Therapy Means Higher Margins

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Retail therapy (shopping to you and me), so the sociologists tell us, is a means by which urban men and women seek to lift their spirits by comfort purchases of inessential goods. This is in contrast to compulsive and repeated binge shopping of largely luxury goods (normally funded by means of maxed-out credit cards) which…