Virginia Postrel Quotes

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

When people have too many choices, they make bad choices.

We have such an embarrassment of riches when it comes to choice. Do you want to hike in the Alps? There are 300 pairs of shoes you can order within the next 10 minutes. You have your choice of everything.

It feels so weird to be able to just kind of buy things when I want them or need them.

In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.

Online shopping makes everything so much easier - it's a bad habit of mine.

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

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.

Star Trek characters never go shopping.

With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD.

I'm always buying gadgets, especially at airports.

I live in Selfridges because it has everything under one roof. Liberty's is great for the same reason - I'm so lazy, I hate walking from shop to shop. Powder in Crouch End always has great designer labels in, so when I walk past I have to put my blinkers on because every time I nip in I come out with too much stuff; it's dangerous.

Downloading is definitely on the rise, but not because it's free - that's probably third on the list - but because it's immediate and the selection is virtually unlimited.

I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.

I like to shop. That's what I do. Online shopping; any kind of shopping.

The web and physical world is plagued with abundance - people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out there. The tyranny of choice is causing major psychic pain and frustration for people.

The expansion of choice has become an explosion of choice.

We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.

I despise shopping and department stores.

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.

The more choices you have--the more options you have, the better off you are.

The more there is on offer, the more you don't want. Fifty options of cereal does not hone an epicurean expertise in the finer points of puffed rice, it murders appetite.

It was at the department store where people got away from provincialism.

But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.

There are a whole bunch of people who don't like to shop. But there are also people, maybe, who even do like to shop but are very time pressured. And so shopping online can save people time.