Shopping for pleasure: The development of shopping as a leisure pursuit

This report from Euromonitor International, an offshoot of its Strategy Briefings series, looks at the development of shopping for pleasure.
This has been made possible by a number of factors inclduing rising incomes, changing attitudes towards debt, the advent of secure internet payment, the extension of non-food offer in hypermarkets, the development of new shopping malls with leisure and entertainment facilities. Shopping tourism is now an option depending on currency movements; and some destinations are choosing to run annual shopping festivals. Longer term, the middle classes in emerging markets are expected to be more resilient to the global economic downturn....

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