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File:Tron-Mart.jpg|link=Tron-Mart|'''''[[Tron-Mart]]''''' is a 1982 American science fiction action-shopping film about a computer programmer and video game developer who is transported inside the software world of a corporate retailer where he interacts with virtual consumer goods in his attempt to escape.
File:Tron-Mart.jpg|link=Tron-Mart|'''''[[Tron-Mart]]''''' is a 1982 American science fiction action-shopping film about a computer programmer and video game developer who is transported inside the software world of a corporate retailer where he interacts with virtual consumer goods in his attempt to escape.
File:Alien - Rise of the Sales Assistants.jpg|link=Alien: Rise of the Sales Assistants|'''''[[Alien: Rise of the Sales Assistants]]''''' is a 2023 science fiction legal drama film about a group of low-paid workers who bring suit against the Weyland-Yutani transplanetary corporation.


File:They Live, We Shop.jpg|link=They Live, We Shop|'''''[[They Live, We Shop]]''''' is a 2021 American documentary film about the hypnotic effects of money.
File:They Live, We Shop.jpg|link=They Live, We Shop|'''''[[They Live, We Shop]]''''' is a 2021 American documentary film about the hypnotic effects of money.
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== Fiction cross-reference ==
== Fiction cross-reference ==


* ''[[Alien: Rise of the Sales Assistants]]''
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]]
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]]

Revision as of 17:17, 19 January 2023

Earliest known poster for The Shop of Things to Come.

The Shop of Things to Come is a science fiction economics horror novel by British writer H. G. Wells about a future shopping expedition which ends in madness, death, and the Final Checkout.

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