Running a well-paid job to sustain a middle-class life incurred pressures that never eased: you needed a bigger house, a better car, private schools for your growing children and shop accounts for your wife so that she looked good when business clients had to be entertained at your home.Other writers took up the theme.
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Adrian Parkinson, spokesman for the Campaign for Fairer Gambling, said: "When you look at the gambling industry as a whole, betting shops account for 97 per cent of all criminal incidents.
It argues that web shops account for almost 2% of jobs in the country, and that gambling taxes could help close the budget deficit.
The fridge's computer can monitor its contents and automatically add food to a user's online shopping account when stocks are running low.
And it helps you spot phishing emails, because if an email appears in your shopping account purporting to come from your bank, for example, you'll immediately know it's a fake.
But the McKinsey study discloses another important source of the traditional shopkeeper's power: mom-and-pop shops account for 55percentt of retail employment here, while the entire retail industry accounts for 12percentt of total employment and 5percentt of the gross domestic product.
Betting shops accounted for 70% of all robberies at commercial premises in London involving a firearm, being hit 167 times.
More Americans went shopping over the Thanksgiving weekend than in recent memory, and online shopping accounted for the highest percentage of the weekend's sales yet.
The planning survey took as a sample half the local planning authorities in England (excluding inner London); new shops accounted for more than 2 million square feet.
