I was in your shoes once, new parents. Shopping for the perfect diaper bag, pruning baby gear lists down to the true essentials. Three kids later, I’m here to tell you: You’re overthinking it. Most of your shopping decisions don’t really matter.

CLEVELAND — The free market is alive and well here at the Republican National Convention. Because in addition to the official, RNC-sanctioned merchandise for sale within the arena, private vendors are making a killing selling Trump-themed refuse to freedom-loving, Hillary-hating passersby everywhere.

An important debate arose in the Jezebel office concerning whether I should get these adult overalls or not.

A judge has ordered Macy’s to immediately quit detaining and fining people suspected of shoplifting. A class action lawsuit claims that Macy’s detained at least two women suspected of shoplifting in holding cells for hours in the basement of the chain’s flagship in New York. Both women were forced to pay the store…

On this Friday, let’s very quickly throw it back to 1956 with this footage from the nation’s first true enclosed mall. Please enjoy the soundtrack.

After a rocky attempt to get cool, Banana Republic is returning to its old, staid ways. Which is why I ask the following question: is the dress I was told to purchase in my email inbox today part of the new BR or the old BR?

Well, well, well! Look what we have here! Smack in the middle of Men’s Fashion Month, a new study reveals that men spend more per month on clothing an accessories than women—not by much, at $85 to women’s $75, but a fact still relevant enough to cite the next time some idiot dude makes a “women be shopping” joke.

The Gap is struggling to fulfill orders in time for Christmas gifting due to an “internal error.” So, if you purchased a pair of adequately fitting jeans or a gray cable knit sweater from the Gap as a present this year, you might be out of luck.

Has Mariah Carey’s festive hit “All I Want For Christmas Is You” seemed slightly less overplayed in stores this season? Well! You’re a very discerning customer because, after two decades, it has been bested by The Shins’ cover of “Wonderful Christmastime” as the tune “that will be played in retail the most.”

Kitson is shuttering all of its 17 stores across California, Oregon and Nevada—even their online shop is biting the dust. Where will Kardashian wannabes shop now?!

As soon as I found out Cyber Monday wasn’t about sex but was actually about shopping, I was like, “Sign me up.” And when I learned I could support my favorite political characters with great deals, I was like, “Sign me up another time!”

The War on Christmas is ramping up: another large chain, H&M, plans to close its doors on one of the biggest shopping days of the year.

Though the magazine’s shuttering has been all but a sure thing for months now, it’s now official: Mashable reports that Lucky magazine stopped publishing content as of Friday, and that the entirety of the editorial staff has been laid off.

Who hasn’t bought something and taken it home, only to steadily succumb to the acute panic of buyer’s remorse?

God, modern feminism is just so commercialized, isn’t it? In Kate Spade’s new mini-movie, we have Anna Kendrick dining solo at the Russian Tea Room in New York, where she runs into (drumroll please) Gloria Steinem.

Hearts were broken last January, when SkyMall, the provider for fun and frivolous consumption, filed for bankruptcy due to not being able to keep up with the constantly changing retail industry. The decline in sales was also blamed on the use of electronic devices on flights. Passengers were paying more attention to…

Great news for those who love to eat but refuse to pay for Whole Foods’ offerings: the company is preparing to launch a line of non-Whole-Foods-branded markets for poor people.