2018 Media Coverage of Compulsive Buying

2018 Media Coverage of Compulsive Buying

• Quartz
  • The dirty industry of fast fashion is causing an environmental “emergency”
• The Wall Street Journal 
  • Lessons From a Six-Month Shopping Detox
• KVOA Tucson News
  • N4T Investigators: Online shopping obsession
• Alberton Record
  • Black Friday. A potential trap for shopaholics
• Huffington Post
  • I Spent Thousands Feeding My Compulsive Shopping Addiction. Here’s How I Stopped
• Mensxp
  • Confessions Of A 20-Something Man Who Found Solace In Online Shopping (Addiction) & Overcame It
• Be Global Fashion Network
  • 8 shocking facts that show how unethical fast fashion companies are ruining the fashion industry
• Drapers
  • ‘Cultural change’ needed to address fashion sustainability
• Bright Side
  • 10 Situations When We Lose Our Common Sense and Buy Useless Stuff
• Metro
  • Check how ethical your fave fashion brands are with this app
• Cosmopolitan
  • My Social-Media Shopping Habit Cost Me $98,000 in 6 Months
• CISION PR Newswire
  • Rokt study finds 81% of U.S. consumers are happiest online when shopping
• Daily Mail
  • Shopaholic who spent thousands of dollars on clothes she didn’t want or need reveals the warning signs your habit is turning into an addiction
• CNBC
• Almost half of americans shop online while drunk- here’s how much it’s costing them
• The Cut
  • How Can I Shop a Sale Without Losing My Head?
• Metro
  • Oniomania: the behavioural disorder that goes beyond being a shopaholic
• ED Times
  • Are You Into Wasteful Spending And Compulsive Shopping? Here’s What To Do About It
• The Economic Times 
  • Tempting online sale? Combat the urge to splurge
• Fashionista
  • HOW I’M CONQUERING MY COMPULSIVE SHOPPING BY FOCUSING ON MY MENTAL HEALTH
• ABC
  • Clothing and textile manufacturing’s environmental impact and how to shop more ethically
• Bloomberg
  • Fast Fashion Goes Green With Mushrooms, Lumber Scraps, and Algae
• ETimes 
  • I am addicted to shopping, says Prriyam Chakroborty
• Fast Company
  • 5 Innovations That Could Help Make Fast Fashion More Sustainable
• Forbes
  • Make A Positive Impact On People And The Planet Through Informed Fashion Choices
• marie claire
  • Is This the End Of Fast Fashion?
• Policygenius
  • How to splurge while looking out for your budget
• South China Morning Post
  • China’s fast-fashion antidote: second-hand stores and clothing swaps to lessen ecological impact
• The Marketing 
  • Scientists say compulsive shopping is a disorder
• iNews: The Essential Daily Briefing
  • Compulsive Shopping is a serious addiction and it’s on the rise, study says
• Huffington Post
  • 8 Times You Should Really Not Go Shopping
• New York Post
  • NYC’s Anti Shopping Movement Would Appall Carrie Bradshaw
• Star Tribune
  • This Minnesota Mom Conquered her Online Shopping Addiction by Renting Designer Clothes 

Carrie Rattle

Carrie Rattle is a Principal at BehavioralCents.com, a website for women focused on mind and money behaviors. She has worked in the financial services industry for 20+ years and hopes to inspire women to better prepare themselves for financial independence.

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