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In America, it has been proven that the bulk of spending money is in the hands of women between 60 and 80, so it's so stupid. The people who do have the time and money to shop are either retired or empty-nesters.

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

I think traditional supermarkets have to pay attention to the fact that America is more and more conscious of lifestyle.

When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, 'What's for dinner?' because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.

No one ever pretended that shopping for anything is a rational experience. If it were, would there be Fluffernutter? Laceless sneakers? Porkpie hats? Would the Chia Pet even exist?

This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better.

When you walk onto a Peter Jackson set, you can see straightaway that money isn't an issue.

I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.