Selling A Dream – The Decline of Shopping in the U.S.
Nostalgia for late 20th century shopping in today’s online convenience driven marketplace. Contrasting past experience with present-day transactional commerce.
Tag: consummerism
The Buying Game
When buying a book becomes a political action…
The Noise of Quiet Quitting
Meditation on the new (or old) phenomenon ‘quiet quitting’
Reduced Recycling
As a concept and in best practice, recycling is a wonderful idea. It finds ways to recover material that would otherwise occupy landfill space and uses it to create new products and materials. Some of these materials, theoretically, are infinitely recyclable as the chemical structure does not deteriorate and so could virtually eliminate the need […]
What Doesn’t Kill You …
Over the past 48 hours there has been a significant amount of discussion surrounding an NPR story that says that most pharmaceuticals are safe and effective long after the manufacturer’s expiration date. For those of us who have worked in any retail setting that deals in product freshness and sell-by dates (e.g. supermarkets or pharmacies) […]
Antidote Notes 