, though it’s often dismissed as simply being a love of spending and frivolous inability to save.
But our shopping habits aren’t purely the result of a desire to increase positive feelings it seems, as VoucherCodes.co.uk found that almost a quarter of Brits shop when they’re bored and want to kill time. Lockdown has created an even wider window for ‘dead time’. Another reason people shop is through seeing things advertised on social media – again, something that lockdown has allowed us to have prolonged exposure to. 30% say they’re more easily influenced to spend this way since going into lockdown.
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