June 16, 2009 at 5:00 am by Luanne Bradley
UK Women Seek Retail Therapy to Cure Recession Blues
Shop till You Drop, a dead end job mystery is a humorous detective novel about a woman who uncovers crimes while employed at an ultra-exclusive boutique in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. But there is much truth to the title of this fiction. It is also the real-life saga of more and more women during the recession.
Conspicuous consumption seems to be the remedy for what ails many money-strapped UK women, as found in a new survey by researchers at the University of Hertfordshire.
Some 700 women were asked about their emotional responses to their …
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