The Day the World Stops Shopping Quotes

“It's like pollution, it feels like visual mental pollution," she said. "Let's say you go to The Gap online and you look for a pair of trousers. It's not just that The Gap will follow you around on your browser for the next week. It's that those pairs of trousers that you've thought you might want -- and then decided you didn't want -- are stalking you. You're literally being chased through the internet by products that you are trying not to buy. They're trying to wear you down and make you buy them.”
― J. B. Mackinnon, The Day the World Stops Shopping

“I have this slightly woolly hope that creativity itself is the next thing," Turner said. He imagines a world in which we form our identities around creative pursuits and self-expressions, letting go of the "anchor of brands" to express who we are.”
― J. B. Mackinnon, The Day the World Stops Shopping