Shoppers Quotes - Page 2

• ... Once you're safely in the mall, you should tie your children to you with ropes so the other shoppers won't try to buy them. Holiday shoppers have been whipped into a frenzy by months of holiday advertisements, and they will buy anything small enough to stuff into a shopping bag. If your children object to being tied, threaten to take them to see Santa Claus; that ought to shut them up.

  Dave Barry

  Children, Humorous, Holiday

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• Sears is offering free $10 gift cards to the first few hundred shoppers. So that may have something to do with the early crowd.

  Dan Jones

  Offering, Cards, Crowds

  "Black Friday shoppers turn out to get bargains". www.cnn.com. November 26, 2005.

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• I'm a real pawn-shopper.

  Jemaine Clement

  Real, Pawns

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. October 30, 2009.

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• For present buying, I go to Harrods because there are great personal shoppers, who point me in the right direction.

  Frank Lampard

  Buying, Right Direction

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• The most impactful way consumers can assert their power is to become mindful shoppers, giving their dollars only to socially responsible companies. In today’s world of social media and smart phones, this is easy to do.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Smart, Phones, Media

  "10 Actions Consumers Can Take to Reinvent Capitalism" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2011.

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• There was something stubborn in me that didn't want to lose weight to attract a man. If the right man came along, he'd be able to see my virtues magically. Once he kissed me, the frog would turn into a prince. I had become a trick question, a heavy disguise, but behind the disobliging exterior was the welcoming child I would always be. Of course, what I'd forgotten was that he was not Parsifal and I was not the Grail; the medievalism of my imagination was not sufficiently up-to-date to recognize that the lover was a shopper and I a product.

  Edmund White

  Children, Men, Imagination

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• I'm not an impulse shopper. I will wait three days after I see something. Am I still thinking about it? Then I'll get it.

  Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann

  Thinking, Waiting, Three

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• If shoppers looked at crooked carrots, misshapen potatoes, slightly dinged apples or too-small peaches and thought, wow, that looks delicious, imagine the benefits for struggling farmers.

  Dana Cowin

  Struggle, Apples, Looks

  "How ugly food can end hunger". Interview with Lauren Lee-Johnson, edition.cnn.com. November 23, 2015.

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• Black Friday, in reality, is a symptom of the plight that 30 years of Reaganomics has brought to working people in America. Right along with the frenzied rise of shoppers willing to fight each other at retail outlets across America, we've been steadily, for the last 30 years, watching the destruction of organized labor ... of decent pay and wages and conditions for working people. ... We have Black Friday today because the wealthy elite have strangled their workers for 32 years, ever since Ronald Reagan's election.

  Thom Hartmann

  Friday, Fighting, Reality

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• I'm a bargain shopper.

  Cheyenne Kimball

  Bargains

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• In Los Angeles on Black Friday, a woman pepper sprayed Wal-Mart shoppers who tried to cut in line. The police acted fast by immediately hiring her to get rid of peaceful protesters outside banking institutions all across the United States.

  Craig Ferguson

  Friday, Cutting, Police

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• Governments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whether it serves any useful purpose. They regard it as a sacred duty to encourage the country’s most revolting spectacle: the annual feeding frenzy in which shoppers queue all night, then stampede into the shops, elbow, trample and sometimes fight to be the first to carry off some designer junk which will go into landfill before the sales next year. The madder the orgy, the greater the triumph of economic management.

  George Monbiot

  Country, Fighting, Night

  "After this 60-year feeding frenzy, Earth itself has become disposable" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2010.

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• Stay with CBS now for more news, including: Is there a pall over the mall as holiday shoppers think small?

  Dan Rather

  Holiday, Thinking, News

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• I walked inside Macy’s and faced the pathetic spectacle of a department store full of shoppers, none of whom were shopping for themselves. Without the instant gratification of a self-aimed purchase, everyone walked around in the tactical stupor of the financially obligated.

  Rachel Cohn

  Christmas, Self, Shopping

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.32, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Sorry, Vern. I guess a more experienced shopper could have gotten more for your seven cents.

  Wil Wheaton

  Money, Sorry, Stand By Me

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• Marketers... Can't simply put a more environmentally friendly package on the shelves and assume that shoppers will recognize and appreciate the change. If the goal is to drive preference or justify a price premium, the environmental benefit needs to be conveyed.

  Scott Young

  Business, Appreciate, Goal

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• Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. I’ve been a painter. A personal shopper. An accountant and a banker. I’ve been a beautician. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. A movie reviewer. A nurse. A psychologist. A negotiator. An I have a Ph. D in How to Pretend Like You Don’t Mind.

  Terry McMillan

  Mother, Teacher, Careers

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• I figured being a bed salesman was a job of biblically bad paradox. I mean, here he was, forced to stand for eight or nine hours a day, and the whole time he’s surrounded by beds. And not only that, he’s surrounded by shoppers who see the beds and can’t help but think, Man, I’d love to lie down on that bed for a second. So not only does he have to stop himself from lying down, but he has to stop everyone else from doing it, too. I knew if I were him, I would be desperate for human company.

  Rachel Cohn

  Jobs, Lying, Mean

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• I'm a last-minute shopper. I end up at the mall or somewhere on Christmas Eve. It's a shame.

  Brad Paisley

  Lasts, Christmas Eve, Shame

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• I'm not a big shopper. I'm very very picky about what it is that I buy, I prefer to buy vintage and then I prefer to be very selective.

  Jaime King

  Vintage, Bigs, Picky

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• When your claim to be victims of secularism rests on Wal-Mart greeters wishing shoppers Happy Holidays, you are clearly a bunch of great big babies.

  Katha Pollitt

  Baby, Holiday, Wish

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• I was born in Las Vegas and my babysitter was a female Elvis Presley impersonator. My first memory is being in her arms and she was fully dressed up as Elvis. She was an avid thrift-shopper so I started going to thrift shops when I was very young. You could put something together for no money at all.

  Jenny Lewis

  Memories, Las Vegas, Avid

  "Jenny Lewis made the move from child actor into music for the right reasons". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, www.chicagotribune.com. August 30, 2016.

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• I am always behind the shopper at the grocery store who has stitched her coupons in the lining of her coat and wants to talk about a 'strong' chicken she bought two weeks ago. The register tape also runs out just before her sub-total. In the public restroom, I always stand behind the teen-ager who is changing into her band uniform for a parade and doesn't emerge until she has combed the tassels on her boots, shaved her legs, and recovered her contact lens from the commode.

  Erma Bombeck

  Running, Strong, Two

  Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, p.9, Fawcett

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• I'm a massive shopper. Topshop, Urban Outfitters - I'm pretty at home on the high street.

  Sophie McShera

  Home, Topshop, Urban

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• I am the world's laziest shopper, but very rarely have I had to take anything back.

  Erin O'Connor

  World

  "My life in shopping: Erin O'Connor, model". Interview, January 15, 2009.

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