A review by alijc
Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture by Ellen Ruppel Shell

2.0

Neither of us were particularly fond of shopping, and so may not have been the intended audience for this book. Some of the chapters were disturbing. I'd heard bad things about Walmart, but not about Ikea. And certainly not about Whole Foods. The psychology of how our brains deal with the concept of price was interesting and could have been expanded. On the whole the book was depressing, with a great deal of evidence of how we've dug ourselves into a shopping frenzy, and not a hint at what any of us can do to break this cycle.