Consume, consume, consume! "I think people over the last six to eight months have been hiding underneath their kitchen tables," said Paco Underhill, author of the book "Why We Buy: the Science of Shopping" and a marketing consultant. "They've climbed out from underneath their kitchen tables and are recognizing the sky is not going to fall." "I don't think we're ever going to go back to shopping as... [more]
Consume, consume, consume!
"I think people over the last six to eight months have been hiding underneath their kitchen tables," said Paco Underhill, author of the book "Why We Buy: the Science of Shopping" and a marketing consultant. "They've climbed out from underneath their kitchen tables and are recognizing the sky is not going to fall."
"I don't think we're ever going to go back to shopping as gluttonously as we have in the past, but for competitive sport shoppers, the thrill is waning on abstinence," said Kit Yarrow, a professor of consumer psychology at Golden Gate University in California."
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Response by aboutready
over 16 years ago
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"competitive sport shoppers"
a 12-step program might be appropriate. glad to see the priorities are in the right place jm. may need to rename you jmF.
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Response by JuiceMan
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wtf do people do with a $657 purse?
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Response by lizyank
over 16 years ago
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JM $657 is rather a MODERATE price for a purse...gets you a large Cole Haan or small LV bag. The truly "impressive" carry alls with the "right" labels (LV, Gucci, Prada, Marc Jacobs etc) are well above the four figure mark and the famous (infamous?) Hermes Birkin bag is, I believe, close to $5K).
One of the reasons I didn't want to move back to the West Village: three places within a block of my apartment selling four-figure purses and not one selling a quart of milk.
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Response by aboutready
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liz, isn't there a resourceful capitalist who is renting high-end bags? you rent them, and then, because of course it isn't done to use the same bag more than a few times, you swap them in and get new ones.
Oh what Carrie Bradshaw and friends wrought. We had a standard joke at work trying to guess which 25 year old staffer's Gucci bag was rented, bought on Canal Street or a gift from Daddy (we liked to think we wouldn't hire someone ridiculous enough to spend that kind of money on a bag given their entry level salaries).
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Response by 30yrs_RE_20_in_REO
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"Hermes Birkin bag is, I believe, close to $5K"
I'll take as many of those for less than $5k as I can get my hands on. As far as I know, they go from about $8K to about $40K
"competitive sport shoppers"
a 12-step program might be appropriate. glad to see the priorities are in the right place jm. may need to rename you jmF.
wtf do people do with a $657 purse?
JM $657 is rather a MODERATE price for a purse...gets you a large Cole Haan or small LV bag. The truly "impressive" carry alls with the "right" labels (LV, Gucci, Prada, Marc Jacobs etc) are well above the four figure mark and the famous (infamous?) Hermes Birkin bag is, I believe, close to $5K).
One of the reasons I didn't want to move back to the West Village: three places within a block of my apartment selling four-figure purses and not one selling a quart of milk.
liz, isn't there a resourceful capitalist who is renting high-end bags? you rent them, and then, because of course it isn't done to use the same bag more than a few times, you swap them in and get new ones.
http://www.bagborroworsteal.com/ui/handbags
http://www.frombagstoriches.com/rentbag/pc/viewCategories.asp?idCategory=12
http://www.frombagstoriches.com/rentbag/pc/index.asp
Oh what Carrie Bradshaw and friends wrought. We had a standard joke at work trying to guess which 25 year old staffer's Gucci bag was rented, bought on Canal Street or a gift from Daddy (we liked to think we wouldn't hire someone ridiculous enough to spend that kind of money on a bag given their entry level salaries).
"Hermes Birkin bag is, I believe, close to $5K"
I'll take as many of those for less than $5k as I can get my hands on. As far as I know, they go from about $8K to about $40K