Are we using our retail establishments as baby-sitters? With encouragement from every media blasting out almost 100% buy messages has shopping replaced too many other social activities?

I'm not completely sure we in the USA spend three times as much time shopping than our eceonomic counterparts in other countries is a serious issue: what happens when we slow our consumption down to a more reseasonable level?

We'll look at a couple of demographics examining what will work, or purchased, in the future.

Conclusion 1: Time-between-purchase (TBP) will increase.

Conclusion 2: Stretching out the same amount of purchases over a longer time span will decrease over-all consumption in that time period.

Conclusion 3: Lowered consumption means the product delivery channel must shrink.

Conclusion 4: Product quality must increase to meet the TBP increase.

Conclusion 5: The difference in products from cheap to expensive is complexity, rather than quality. Quality is no longer a factor in making a purchase decision.

Conclusion 6:Increased TBP results in more time to do research on the product desired.

Conclusion 7: Expensive products will require more service than currently available.