Thursday November 20, 2008
It was our national pastime – but now shopping is just so over
Martin Hickman and Stina Backer
Independent
Bank of England says love affair with retail is at an end
For a time it seemed that walking the shopping malls was more popular than walking the dog, but in a dramatic change for a nation of credit card junkies, the Bank of England has declared that Britons are going off shopping as a "leisure activity".
As the Bank announced the end of shopping as a national pastime, high street giants were announcing marketing ploys in attempts to turn back the clock to the free-spending days in the lucrative run-up to Christmas.
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