The phrase 'retail therapy' is a relatively recent one.
This article traces it back to a piece in the Chicago Tribune at Christmas 1986, which included a memorable quote which has been much repeated
“We've become a nation measuring out our lives in shopping bags and nursing our psychic ills through retail therapy"
(Schmich).
This predated the internet of course.
This could equally apply to the UK as well as the USA of course.
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