retail therapy

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“If I need retail therapy, I put it on the list, and then I can see when the price goes up or down,” Baxter says.

From Seattle Times

But she also posted videos in which she sang Celine Dion songs in her hospital room, wrote about doing “retail therapy” at Harrods, described eating roast potatoes while watching a James Bond movie to recover from physical exhaustion and detailed overcoming her fear of flying.

From New York Times

In the summer of 2020, amid fear and uncertainty over the pandemic, Amber Cole of Colorado Springs turned to retail therapy.

From New York Times

Michael Majestic, of Bethesda-based Willard Retail, which owns and manages 20 mostly suburban shopping centers across the Mid-Atlantic, said he’s hopeful remote workers and others seeking “retail therapy” will sustain brick-and-mortar retailers hit hard by online shopping.

From Washington Post

Two years of pandemic — of “not being able to exercise their retail therapy,” he said — had generated pent-up demand for multithousand-dollar-a-night hotel rooms and multimillion-dollar apartments.

From Seattle Times