Dive Summary:

• In a recent online poll of 1,000 adult consumers located in the U.S., 91% of ‘recently stressed’ participants claimed they shopped to alleviate the condition.
• Women were more than two times as likely to participate in the practice, with 40% of women and only 19% of men claiming to have shopped when stressed.
• Men were also more than twice as likely to report they have never shopped out of stress and would never consider doing so, 34% vs. 16% of females surveyed.

From the article:

Women's personal finance resource Learvest also recommends leaving credit cards at home and carrying cash instead, unsubscribing from email newsletters from your favorite retailers and avoiding shopping with wealthy friends as ways to tame an impulse-buying habit. Of course, that's all easier said than done.