Retail therapy
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retail-therapy-207-15088748
title:
Retail therapy
text:
Retail therapy or shopping therapy is shopping with the primary purpose of improving the buyer's mood or disposition. It occurs either due to people taking pleasure in shopping or during periods of depression or stress. Items purchased during periods of retail therapy are sometimes referred to as "comfort buys". The name retail therapy is ironic and semifacetious, acknowledging that shopping hardly qualifies as true therapy in the medical or psychotherapeutic sense. It was first used in the 1980
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Shopping to improve one's mood
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retail_therapy
date created:
2005-06-08T22:56:02Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T03:21:04Z
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