therapeutic shopping

Many people in the Western world are hopelessly addicted to the shopping experience. However, as economic situations change many cannot afford to go out to the mall and blow a couple of thousand. Also, the excess production of goods has real costs in energy, enviornmental degradation, etc, etc.

Solution: Deptartment stores and other retail shops would create special accounts for the addicted shopper so that they could indulge in the shopping experience and actually check out the merchandise with a special card cleverly disguised as a credit card. The clerk would then give the customer a date for when the goods would be delivered to his/her home and then the store would restock the merchandise instead of shipping it. The customer would pay a low fee for this service.

This semi virtual shopping experience could also be used to impress dates, inlaws and other parties