For Americans, shopping is both a popular pastime and a defining social institution. Our propensity for admiring, coveting, pursuing and accumulating consumer goods has attracted righteous condemnation and knowing satire for well over a century. Shopping, quipped editor J.L. Harbison in 1899, is “an endless hunt for the unattainable, with [the] result of not wanting it when secured.” Yet Americans in his day remained “inveterate shoppers.” We still are.
Nearly 197 million Americans, about 60% of the population, went shopping in-person or online during the five-day period beginning on Thanksgiving, according to the National Retail Federation. The number of in-store shoppers jumped 17% from last year, to 122.7 million. (Many people shopped both in-person and online.) On average, shoppers spent more than $325 on holiday-related purchases.
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