The Inspired Shopper

Picture: Anita Dalton  Borders bookstores have been holding fire sales and closing their doors all over Melbourne. I’ve found myself in three of them at various stages of dissolution – Camberwell, Chadstone and Melbourne Central. This process began after REDgroup, owners of the...

Websites that offer tantalising sales and get-in-quick daily offers can make shopping look like a game! How do you navigate this dizzying world of opportunity and temptation without ending up with goods that aren’t that good, or right for you? More and more sales, whether for sleek...

I’m thrilled to announce that my new book, The Inspired Shopper, is now available! You can get it now on Amazon as a Kindle ebook. The Inspired Shopper teaches you how to become a precision shopper, quickly and efficiently locating the goods that are right for you – at the right price....

One of the reasons I became an inspired shopper was because, around the time I became a uni student more than two decades ago, I completely lost the ability to find and choose clothes that suited me. It was partly my increasingly radical political views, which assumed that anything...

While I’m a fan of small business retailers, I don’t normally use this blog to promote individual businesses - that’s not its aim. But when I stumbled upon Second Edition bookstore recently I was so impressed by the stylish fit-out and store concept that I had to include a plug in this...