Those who need frequent shopping trips to avoid spoilage and because they have less money at any one particular time rather than infrequent shopping trips to buy in bulk suffer the consequences.

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Begin by taking a 10-minute time out from shopping at one of the 11 cloud-like pods placed randomly around the store, which were launched in collaboration with Andy Puddicombe, a former Buddhist monk and creator of modern meditation enterprise Headspace.

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The last time I looked, no one forced anyone to go shopping on Black Friday or any other day.

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Manal, a wife and mother, says she enjoys spending time and money at one of Riyadh's most expensive shopping malls, the Mamlaka.

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But one in six men admitted they spent less than an hour and, in some cases, no time at all shopping for Christmas gifts.

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