Tag: shopping
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Psst… try to stay calm this Black Friday
You’re doing it right now. You’re scouring the internet for deals. You’re hoping the thing you’ve had your eye on will reduce in price. Black Friday is almost here, and you want to be ready. Of course, I am well aware about the need, and sometimes just a desire, to save money. That is what…
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Gentle Monster and and artful shopping experience
If you are headed to New York, you have plenty of museums to fill your art desires. But maybe heading into a sunglasses store will fill that bucket for you as well. I bring to you Gentle Monster. Yes, I suggest you should visit a sunglasses store. Yes, you are a work of art and…
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A visit to the Elorea flagship
Something about me. Anytime I need to go somewhere new, I take time to zoom into the area on Google Maps. As I planned my trip to New York, I saw the word Elorea on my screen. Of course, I needed to know more, did some digging, and found out it was a fragrance store.…
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Copenhagen department stores were a learning experience for me
There was excitement in the air. Maybe it was just my own. I had put Illum and Magasin du Nord on my Copenhagen itinerary early in my trip planning. Once I was in country, I was giddy, like a 90s teenager who had been dropped off at the mall. Truthfully, Magasin du Nord is a…
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A sliding scale for returns fees? Oh Polly introduces new policy to discourage returns
In the hopes of discouraging serial returns, online retailer Oh Polly is introducing new fees for returning products in the UK. If you are returning less than 50% of your order, your fee will be roughly 3 pounds. The fee increases every 10 percentage points, to the highest fee of 9 pounds for those returning…
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Hear me out. You need to add The South Slope Cheese Co. to your Asheville itinerary
The South Slope Cheese Co. in Asheville, North Carolina is now probably on the list of my wallet’s most horrifying nightmares. I cannot be trusted in any grocery store, let alone a specialty one. But pardon me, it is not a cheese shop; it is a fromagerie. They sell a selection of not just award-winning…
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I tried to use an AI personal shopper, and now I distrust AI even more
I must admit, I am the person who sees the advances of the Boston Dynamics robots and thinks, “You definitely need to destroy that thing now before it kills us all.” Needless to say, I am not the most tech adventurous. However, recently I had been seeing a lot about AI in fashion and decided…
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Forgiving the impulse buy
My trip to Nobu and Phipps plaza happened during a particularly stressful period of my life. I had already planned the trip and made the reservation, but I didn’t expect to need it so bad. I indulged in all of the food, like I had planned. That was no problem. Making an expensive planned purchase…
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The beauty of in-store shopping: Or what would get me in store
People love online shopping. I like online shopping. It is convenient. You can look at multiple options while binging Netflix and with unpresentable hair. But you can’t touch anything. And after years of being fearful of touching, I want to touch something. Not to mention, I, like I imagine others do, want what I want…
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I dream of Harrod’s
I have somehow drifted into British fashion YouTube. For whatever reason, the site has decided to grant me my fashion fix with side of accents and dry British humour. (The extra u was intentional. 😊 ) Watching them has exposed me to a whole different type of department store: Harrods. The way place is set…
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