Sto leggendo il libro di Paul Auster “Hand to mouth” edito da Picador USA e 
ho trovato questa definizione di shopping bellissima (a pagina 6): “… she cultivated shopping as a means of self-expression, at times raising it to the level of an art form. To enter a store was to engage in an alchemical process that imbued the cash register with magical, transformative properties. Inexpressible desires, intangible needs, and unarticulated longings all passed through the money box and came out as real things, palpable objects you could hold in your hand.”
Sono sicuro che ognuno di noi si comporta un pò (o molto) così. O no?