The conspiracy theorists are correct. The conspiracy is to get us to buy more, and it has worked out just great. Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy (Netflix) is shrewdly timed, released a week before Black Friday — a shopping orgy that used to be American but is now universal — and Thanksgiving (still American) and a few weeks before Christmas.
According to this 84-minute documentary, every single public holiday involves, in the days that follow it, a huge surge in the amount of perfectly good items that retailers send to landfill..