The kind of shopping — where you hand over notes and count out change in return — now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters, like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk, from a corner shop.
" You are basically almost forced to enter the bowels of a mostly financial configuration in order to be exposed to the maximum amount of shopping, " he says.
(END VIDEOTAPE) AZUZ: If NASA were to track American shopping habits through the seasons, it`d be expecting the whole country to light up in the days ahead.