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Retail therapy was first used as a term in the 1980s with the first reference being this sentence in the '' Chicago Tribune '' of Christmas Eve 1986. "We've become a nation measuring out our lives in shopping bags and nursing our psychic ills through retail therapy." (2) In 2001, the European Union conducted a study finding that 33 per cent of shoppers surveyed had "high level of addiction to rash or unnecessary consumption'." {Link without Title} This was causing debt problems for many with the problem being particularly bad in Scottish young people. Researchers at Melbourne University have advocated its classification as a pschological disorder called oniomania or compulsive shopping disorder. {Link without Title} One Musician used this term Retail Therapy in attempt to caution the marketing oriented music industry. REFERENCES Footnotes (1) Oxford English Dictionary Online "Retail therapy" accessed 20 March 2006 (2) Oxford English Dictionary Ibid |
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