Psst… You will not be conscious, but there’s been a really welcome buying revolution. In the space of fifteen years, retailing has blown away the centuries outdated notion that purchasing needs to be confined to the hours of 9 to 5, six days every week.

The information security breach affected around 15 million cardholders, according to official estimates, by far the largest in a series of such scams towards financial companies in South Korea going back to 2011. Some earlier assaults involved hackers believed to originate from North Korea, however this one seems to have been an inside job. Because of the constraints of (costly) retail ground space and the bodily (manageable) number of pages in printed catalogue, over ninety percent of the multi channel retailers we talked to, plan to supply ‘Web Only’ exclusives via their on-line channels.

Don’t get me wrong, I love shopping online, not least because …