Confessions of a Digital Window Shopper

Why does abandoning online shopping carts bring us so much joy?

Carly J Hallman
7 min readAug 1, 2023
Photo by JESHOOTS.COM on Unsplash

To me, there is little as comforting, as joyous as clicking with abandon around an online shop and hitting Add to Basket. Over and over. Building an order, maybe even copy-and-pasting a discount code. Viewing the cart as a whole, proceeding to checkout, assessing the damage, nodding with…

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Carly J Hallman

Just another 30-something writing about the internet, nostalgia, culture, entertainment, and life. Author, screenwriter, copywriter. www.carlyjhallman.com