Jan 10, 2012
Friends don’t let friends whip out their credit cards in front of the computer screen after they’ve knocked back a few Margaritas. At least, maybe they shouldn’t. That’s what the results of a recent survey of online shoppers in Great Britain discovered. There seems to be a growing problem of people getting a little too tipsy and spending big bucks online while in a compromised mental or emotional state due to the influence of alcohol. Lots of people do it, in fact, and with increasing frequency. What then do we know about the personality types who tend to indulge in this practice the most? One Texas television provider featured a British news channel that discussed exactly this just a few weeks ago. Let’s have a look at some statistics.
In the following infographic shows what was reported in the gathered data, including at which hours of the day and night most of these tipsy shoppers are spending their money. A few of the respondents even reported that they had no memory of making intoxicated purchases until later on the next day, and sometimes later than that. Scary! So here is the infographic itself, with all this charming information about people who shop while impaired.
