Peer-reviewed research into the psychology of consequence-free commerce.
Our research team (fictional) conducted a comprehensive study of 10,000 imaginary participants and found that adding items to a FakeShop cart produces 83% of the dopamine of real shopping, with 0% of the financial regret.
The study, published in the Journal of Imaginary Consumer Psychology (Vol. 4, No. 2), concluded that fictional retail therapy is "surprisingly effective at producing the warm fuzzy feelings associated with shopping, without the need to actually own more stuff."
Our quantum logistics team discovered that observing a fictional package's location on a map causes it to both exist and not exist simultaneously — what we call the FakeShop Uncertainty Principle. This is why Quantum Parcel Solutions lists your tracking status as "Maybe." The act of checking your tracking updates the package's probability waveform, potentially collapsing it into the delivered state ahead of schedule.