Emily Berrington Quotes

I love to go shopping at Target. They have so much stuff there, you can buy almost anything, it's really amazing.

Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets.

Self-checkout is negative because more and more retailers are losing the personal touch. People want to do business where people know their name and communicate with them. With a world full of email and more self-service we will begin to start seeking out the basics from retailers who create emotion. There is not emotion out of self-service and most people buy out of emotion.

In the year 3000, everything will be instant.

It's fun to buy make-up online. It's even more fun to go into a store and buy it.

It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast.

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.

We are so reliant on power and technology for everything.

We'd have to go self-service.

For my grandmother's generation, the big invention was cake mix; for our moms, it was the microwave, and for me, it's the iPhone. And that's enabled us to do so many different things more efficiently at home.

Technology improves our lives in so many ways - from our toasters, ovens, and refrigerators at home to our computers, fax machines, and BlackBerrys at work. Technology makes once-burdensome tasks easy and fun.

I like modern efficiencies and functionality.

Society is fast - fast food, fast cars, fast everything.

The best form of customer service is self service. Constantly empower customers to get their own answers themselves.

A lot of people... use a calculator!

In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs.

Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world.

Why can't everything be as easy as walking into H&M and putting a week's worth of clothes on a credit card?

Every-time we use a product or service, someone is serving us.

The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each step carries its shopper aloft, as though afraid he might change his mind. It takes us up to merchandise we might not have bothered to climb an ordinary flight of steps for.

I walked inside Macy’s and faced the pathetic spectacle of a department store full of shoppers, none of whom were shopping for themselves. Without the instant gratification of a self-aimed purchase, everyone walked around in the tactical stupor of the financially obligated.

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

I find supermarkets fascinating places. It's extraordinary, you can buy anything there.

The new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle wandering, and all the permutations of these.

The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds ... If you suffer from hurry sickness in its most advanced stages, you may find yourself punching 88 seconds instead of 90 because it is faster to tap the same digit twice.