from icWales newspaper
So, are you Cardiff’s biggest shopper?
THE hunt is on for South Wales’ biggest shopaholics! A group of super shoppers is being sought to help decide the shopping future of the capital. The people behind the St David’s 2 development are hoping to make the city one of the UK’s shopping hotspots. They are working hard to bring in all the best shops to the new centre, but need a team of 10 super shoppers to tell them which new stores people really want to see in the development. The lucky shoppers will be among the first to know which shops have signed up for St David’s 2 and will get sneak previews of what the centre will look like.
The super shoppers team will be made up of people of all ages and from all walks of life. The 10 will be treated as VIPs and will be taken to all the centre’s exclusive events. They will be given a £100 gift card to be spent in the St David’s Centre as well as gifts and goodie bags along the way. St David’s 2 project director Simon Armstrong said: “We are looking for people who love shopping, from teenagers to grandparents, who want to be involved with the city’s most exciting new development and who can give us their valued opinions as we move forward.
“This development will become a big part of Cardiff city centre and we want to involve its future customers as it starts to take shape. We’ll be asking them for their views over the next two years. They are, after all, the people who will be shopping in the new stores and eating in the new restaurants.”
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god - its awful - the thing that gets me is the way that being a shopaholic - an addict - is seen as a status symbol - ugh
not saying that they're in anyway related but read this article today - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml;jsessionid=FE0M0EQMV3WSLQFIQMGCFFOAVCBQUIV0?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/portal/2008/01/24/ftsuicide124.xml
seems like South Wales could do with a culture / meaning injection
ugh its so depressing - the thing that gets me is how people seem to think being a shopaholic is like a guilty pleasure like having one more cheeky glass of wine - shopaholic! it means you're an addict!
Anyways I just read this
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml;jsessionid=FE0M0EQMV3WSLQFIQMGCFFOAVCBQUIV0?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/portal/2008/01/24/ftsuicide124.xml
South Wales sounds like quite a hopeless place!
Hello Charles
good to hear from you squire.
Yes it does seem rather bleak in Wales at the moment. Which is interesting, because every time I get on a domestic flight in the UK or travel on the Heathrow Express, there are promotional videos for Wales as being the number one destination for business investment in Europe.
Its so depressing that high street is always the focal point when planners redevelop towns. The same thing's happening in Kings Cross at the moment - padestrianise the streets, build a few Costa Coffee shops and chocs away.
I can't wait for St Pancras' 90 metre long champagne bar to fold when the downturn kicks in. 'What can we do to make travellers' journeys more comfortable? Nice chairs? Free internet stations? A tourist information room? No, lets build Europe's longest, most expensive champagne bar!'
You should check this blog from a french guy, I stumbled upon while surfing liberation.fr:
http://www.luxemode.fr
You would have loved it in your pre-bonfire days. Good book of yours by the way, a blatantly honest account of your brand detox. I'm really curious how 'brand-free' you still are now, if you still are anyway. And how you would have reconciled your new brand-free attitude with work assignments for big brand companies, for example. Have you decided not working for brands anymore or not? I am myself working as a graphic designer in the publishing and advertising industry, but having also had this late realisation that I've often been suckered into buying things that I didn't actually need and that didn't deliver what they promised. I now feel like a recovering alcoholic working at a Vodka-plant. There's not too much work for graphic designers outside the persuasion business, isn't there?
hello anonymous (wish people would leave their names!)
thanks for posting the site URL - amazing, I would indeed have poured over that site in my former life. The chocolate embossed leather holdall would have gone down well.
But beleive it or not, I'm still managing to stay clear of most branded goods. The sales come and go, as do new collections of clothes and gadgets but life goes on in a cheaper and less anxious way.
But like all addicts say, you take each day as it comes.
Thanks for posting.
Hi Neil, thanks for answering my first question. But no answer on the work-related question?
cheers
Hi, Neil
I'm a fan of yours who greatly agree and support your thoughts and behavior after reading your book
Though I can't understand every detail of your book since I am not so good at English,
I can feel what you think as I did when reading the book
I think I am in the same point like you were before you burned your expensive possessions Though I don't have firm determination and courage like you,
I am really thankful to you because I could put my indiscriminate and unconditional consumption to an end.
Take care of yourself, friend!!
I hope you see that the amount of interest and support for you is not too small in the South Korea.
Hello Kwon
many thanks for the note of support.
I'm really pleased that the book has translated culturally in Korea, and that it had some relevance for you.
If you do want to take it a step futher, perhaps visit www.brand-aid.info. There are loads of practical tips there on de-branding.
Good luck!
Hey dude
hows things? Ohhhh bleakness - 2 interesting things - first this TED Talk is really interesting - all about public spaces
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3057280178909051497
then there's an interesting piece in this week's Spectator by Rob Liddle - its about the smoking ban but it seems to resonate with what you're saying about the champagne bar - you can read a bit of it here
http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2008/01/i_just_wish_rod.html
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/02/21/are-you-man-enough-to-be-on-shopping-panel-91466-20504929/
and another one!! what is going on!!?? needless to say, i will NOT be one of these people!
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