The report suggests that retailers should tailor discount seasons based on festivals of different regions, offer best prices and value added services (happy hours on shopping deals, offers for retirees, contests for students, for example), among other things.

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Then, he asked how many of us had found that totally groovy happy experience when we'd been shopping.

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Shopping not only "makes us all happy and smile, " it is also a major economic force, Lowy noted.

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In their daily shopping, the good burghers of Freiburg are happy to reuse plastic bags again and again.

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In the 1970s and 1980s, banks were happy to loan out 100% of the financing need to buy or build new shopping malls and office buildings.

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For guests of the happy couple, this can mean instant access to historic tours, plenty of antiques shopping, outstanding restaurants, and galleries, too.

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