What do you think about the compulsive shopping?

Q1. Yes, in my personal experience normal shoppers and compulsive shoppers behave differently when they shop. Normal shoppers will consider how many budgets they have and what kind of products they need to buy before they go to shopping. And the compulsive shopper will not consider too much, they just enjoy the moment of the purchasing when they use credit card. But most of them don't have enough money to pay the credit card bill.

Q2. No, I don't know anyone who seems to be addicted to shopping. Because I think the groups of my friends are still young and don't have a lot of money for us to become the compulsive shoppers. We are still eager to making money on our jobs instead of to shopping.

Q3. In some countries, the culture encourage people to work hardly and to save the money they earned in the bank such as the Chinese people. In contrast, in some countries the culture encourage people to enjoy their life and shop a lot. You don't have to make a lot of money, but you can enjoy spending all your money on shoppings such as the Brazil people.

Q4. The advertisments affect the way people shop depends on what kind of product they sell and what kind of the buyer they want to attract. Take myself for example, I am really interested in 3C products. Therefore, I will always focus on the advertisment introducing about the electronic devices I'm interested. No doubt, the advertisement affect the way people shop in many kinds of reasons.

Q5. I will define a compulsive shopper who just like the alcoholic drinker or the compulsive gamblers. Without shopping or spending all the money he owns, he will never stop shopping. Until he declare bankruptcy or face the tragedy in his family, he just can understand what is he doing before.

Q6.If the author of this article can point out where is the recent study come from which authority on paragraph 3 may have made this essay stronger, cause people can find out the rate about compulsive shoppers in this society if someone want to do more research.