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British Supermarket Chain Starts Dating Service Based On Shopping Habits
Asda, a British retail giant owned by Wal-Mart, has launched an online dating site which matches singles by the products they purchase. Because, really, you are what you buy, and who would want to...
View ArticleHow Shopping Malls Make You Buy
Hungry Beast offers a three-minute primer on how architecture and design elements in shopping malls have been tested and tweaked to create “scripted disorientation” and manipulate and channel our...
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The Deeper Meaning Of Shopping
Shopping and the consumerist impulse are lambasted as empty and selfish. But the New Left Project has an entirely different, novel view of consumerism: Shopping is usually a collective act. Most of the...
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Occupy-Themed Best Buy Marketing Campaign
Have you been curious how the Occupy movement would be co-opted? Occupy Best Buy combines the red-hot protest movement with Black Power fist iconography in an effort to get people pumped up about...
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Woman Pepper Sprays Shoppers To Get Xbox
NBC Los Angeles reports on some Black Friday action. Over the past two months, in our society, pepper spraying anyone, anytime to get what you want has become completely normalized: A customer shot...
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Supermarkets Begin Charging Different Prices To Different People
Standardized price tags may soon be supplanted by personalized ones. Wealthy, high-spending shoppers will likely be courted by receiving the best prices, while the poor will be charged more for the...
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Finally, Amazon Sells Pens For Women
Some would argue that in our patriarchal, capitalist society, the male-female gender binary is enforced and emphasized, and a never-ending supply of unnecessary consumer items is churned out for people...
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On Shopping And Warfare
Via the The New Inquiry, Christina Kral and Adriana Valdez Young on the connection between the two activities that may be opposite sides of the same coin: What is the relationship between war and...
View ArticleRetailers Track Consumers With Facial Recognition Technology As They Shop
Time to go shopping in a ski mask? Fashion retailers and others are unleashing surveillance systems equipped with NeoFace, a face detection and comparison engine, allowing them to track customers’...
View Article‘Tis The Season To Get Trampled…
Just in time for Back Friday, Cyber Monday and all those days leading up to Christmas when “they” want you to BUY BUY BUY, the Story of Stuff Project brings you their latest video:
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The Adventure Of Randomized Shopping
Craving the excitement that consumerism arouses, Darius Kazemi designed the Amazon Random Shopper, which buys random object each month, and documents the results. Could this randomized consumption...
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How Stores Are Spying On You
Wear a mask, pay cash, and break out your old brick cell phone. Consumer Reports tells all: High-resolution video cameras monitor all areas in and outside the store. With facial-recognition software,...
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App Scans Grocery Store Items To Identify Monsanto Products
Specifically intended to point out items linked to the vast and nebulous tentacles of Monsanto and Koch Industries, the smartphone app uncloaks the corporate family tree behind a given barcode. Via...
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Nordstrom Tracks Shoppers In Stores Via Their Smartphones
Oh, and it’s not just Nordstrom. Go shopping with a wifi-enabled phone at your peril, reports the New York Times: Like dozens of other brick-and-mortar retailers, Nordstrom wanted to learn more about...
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Walmart Shelves Emptied in Unlimited Food Stamp Shopping Spree
A mobbed Wal-Mart store, but not the site of the food stamp stampede. Well now we know where food stamp recipients like to shop (no surprise of course). Now who’s going to pay the bill? (No prizes for...
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Black Friday Isn’t Even the Best Day to Get a “Deal”
This won’t be news to most disinfonauts, but here are some details you can share with your less informed friends and family. Tiffany Hsu writes at the Los Angeles Times: As the hardiest of shoppers...
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Chinese Man Commits Suicide At Mall After Girlfriend Refuses To Stop Shopping
Death by overwhelming and inescapable consumerism? Via Gawker: A man who was fed up with his girlfriend’s incessant Christmas shopping responded to her request for one more look around a mall shoe...
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11 Percent Of People Say They Shop Online Naked
Via CNET News, I’m not sure exactly what this says about our relationship with the consumer items we purchase: This is the ultimate in capitalist freedom. How many people, though, will actually admit...
View ArticleFinally, Amazon Sells Pens For Women
Some would argue that in our patriarchal, capitalist society, the male-female gender binary is enforced and emphasized, and a never-ending supply of unnecessary consumer items is churned out for people...
View ArticleOn Shopping And Warfare
Via the The New Inquiry, Christina Kral and Adriana Valdez Young on the connection between the two activities that may be opposite sides of the same coin: What is the relationship between... The post...
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