CHAPTER II
1. Literature Review 1.1 Introduction
According to an online article, Shopping Addictions: When Spending Hurts “A shopping addiction can cause serious problems. First of all, it is difficult for addicts. Even though shopaholics enjoy the excitement, they often feel depressed or guilty after a shopping trip. Spending more money they have, many shopaholics have financial problems. As they spend, the may lie to their families about their spending habits”.
Deborah Gray gives additional suggestions of how to get a handle on someone’s shopping behaviours in her post, ‘Controlling Impulse Spending’. These suggestions include, ‘using a debit card or cash instead of your credit cards, planning your shopping trips ahead of time by creating
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You can even spend money which were supposed to be used somewhere else. One common character in shopping addict is that they purchase products impulsively and like making payments online, through credit cards. Based on this statement, shopping addict is a serious problem and can be a severe addiction. It is characterized by the need to purchase items even when they do not need the items. Shopaholics will follow their desire without making a plan thus shopping unnecessarily.
However, researcher also found a book written about the story of the author herself having an experience with financial problem due to shopping addiction. According from the sources from the book written by Karen O’Connor “Addicted to shopping and other Issues Women have with Money’’. Some interesting points in the book include the common traits among most addictions and compulsions, the type of women over spenders, shopaholics, debt enablers and credit card abusers. The book explains to women why they think, behave and spend as they do, and then she explains what they can do to change such negative
Many Americans love shopping, especially during the holidays, with its captivating discounts and sales, which lead to uncontrollable splurges on irrelevant things. According to Quindlen, this is an example of America’s crazed consumerism and it is absolutely absurd. In her article, “Honestly, You Shouldn’t Have”, she states that there is currently an assumption that purchasing American merchandises symbolize an act of patriotism and at the same time, build a strong economy. She also states that we, as Americans, need to acknowledge important spiritual values such as friends and family rather than material goods.
Moreover, the basis of the argument was that Americans are addicted to shopping, due
As well as feeding into consumerism to fill a void, “I ordered pair after pair. I was ordering them as quickly as I could… I had nothing left” (293). This shows how people often feed into things they might want but not actually
The Millionaire Next Door “Frugal Frugal Frugal” Jayla Helton ECON 202 Summary What defines Frugal? According to Webster’s dictionary, this means the behaviors reflecting the economy in the use of a resources.
Consumerism in relation to women is blatantly sexist in that it produces an ideology that female consumers are constantly purchasing extravagant items because they are incapable of spending money rationally. The theory continues to suggest that female consumers are searching to enhance their femininity to appeal to the binary gender
Nevertheless, the interviewees frown upon being labelled as someone that values luxury over reasonable spending. Hence, they expressed their emphasis on the importance of needs over wants, and that practicality should triumph over extravagance. They see “limited” consumption as a form of self discipline, where excessive spending was only justifiable when it is spent on the family and invested in the children. If
The article, “Buy Experiences, Not Things” by James Hamblin, conveys how buying experiences are more positive than buying materialistic items shown by the anticipation for an experience, peers rather talk about it, and bad experiences can turn into good stories. The author first starts out with the anticipation of an experience. The author writes, “ ‘you think about waiting for a delicious meal at a nice restaurant or looking forward to a vacation,’ kumar told me, ‘and how different that feels from waiting for, say, your pre-ordered iPhone to arrive. Or when the two-day shipping on Amazon Prime doesn’t seem fast enough.’
They are spending the money that they do not have on unnecessary products. “I was letting brand names control my life and I needed help.” (Cleveland, 280) “In my mind, clothes made the woman and everything else was secondary.” (Cleveland, 279)
For example, on Thanksgiving Day bargain shoppers sent an 11 year-old to hospital in 2013. Then, a worker got trampled. Paramedics came, they got injured and the worker was killed. People spend too much money.
It’s from this addiction to happiness that results in consuming greater than I may need to feel more involved. When I feel intimidated I need happiness, to cheer me up and my way out of it is to consume, for some people its cigarettes to deal with stress, for me its consume to be pleased. Therefore, we consumers all share a common view about consumerism which is work, bring in money, and consequently, spend money. We all have an addiction to consume to bring us what we think is our happiness, occasionally this addiction even consumes us entirely and we have nothing left.
The concept of consumerism was first brought to my awareness in First Year Writing. I admit, before this intro course, I was indeed ignorant of the negative impacts that consumption had on society. FYS opened my mind to the dangers of over-consumption, and more importantly, helped me see beyond what meets the eye. Take for example, Disney, a seemingly innocent corporation, a company’s whose name is practically synonymous with the notion of childhood innocence. Upon initial judgement, one would assume that Disney is merely harmless family entertainment.
The article “The Science of Shopping” written by New Yorker staff writer Malcom Gladwell, is based on retail anthropologist and urban geographer Paco Underhill. Underhill studies the shopping characteristics through frequently watched surveillance tapes to help store managers improve the setup of their goods and services. Through those footages he evaluated his observations and the statistics to help define his theories with the purpose to make sellers conform to the desires of the shoppers. Underhill, an insightful and revolutionary man, provides a view of science to displaying merchandise and creates a positive experience for both the buyer and seller. I agree that Underhill’s scientific theories; the Invariant Right, Decompression
Materialism is a problem in American society, everyday people go for the next best thing just to show off their possessions. People show off what they have, and once they get tired of it, they begin to go for the latest, cellular devices, clothing’s, cars etc. According to Tim Kasser, “People develop ideals looking at the lives of their friends, neighbors, co-workers, and relatives” (Kasser52). What he is trying to say is, instead of every person helping each other expand in life, everyone is in rivalry with one another. In order to make an attempt at fixing the American society, making it less materialistic, people must become and think correspondingly of a minimalist.
Before the anaphora she explains what “shopping” is, then uses anaphora to provide the different reasons one may shop. These reasons show that shopping is not about obtaining necessities, the modern day has transformed shopping to provide many other benefits. It demonstrates that some people are becoming reliant on shopping to attain benefits such as decision making, be apart of society, or to cheer themselves up. These other benefits display why people enjoy shopping and are becoming more
Combat Food Addiction and Gain Your Body in 5 Steps When addiction is mentioned, many people think about drugs, alcohol or sex. But the fact remains that one could be addicted to food as well. One of the prevalent enemy people desiring to lose weight might actually face is food addiction. This is frequently experienced as cravings for various types of foods. They could be sugars, fats or even worse, sweet fatty foods for instance chocolates.