The poem explores the stereotype of a shopaholic woman.  Duffy exaggerates the character of the poem by making her become a shop herself.

• A reference to everything being disposable, including men: ‘Ditched him’
• A present-day currency reference could suggest that both money and woman’s rights have evolved as women now have full use of their own money: ‘saved up a pound, a fiver, a tenner’
• A reference to the women only working to cover the cost of her addiction: ‘applied for a job for the wage and the bonus’
• A reference to the woman’s addiction being too strong, resulting in her buying things that she doesn’t need: ‘ordering swimming pools, caravans, saunas’
• A reference to being addicted to spending money: ‘tapping her credit card numbers all night’
• A reference to there being no humanity left in the women: ‘she was stone, was concrete and glass’
• A sexual reference to her being a prostitute: ‘Her skirts were glass doors opening and closing, her stockings were moving stairs, her shoes were lifts, going up, going down’
• A reference to the addiction of spending money, as if it drains her blood: ‘loved the credit cards swiping themselves in her blood’
• A reference to expensive items: ‘cheeses, fruits, wines, truffles and caviar’
• A reference to that she is using words to seduce and enjoys her sexually promiscuous nature: ‘was gift wrapping, the whisper of tissue and string, she loved the changing rooms of her heart’
• A reference to the prostitute having control over the sexually desperate, giving the sex worker a feeling of empowerment for the sex worker: ‘she would have a sale and crowds would queue overnight at her cu*t, desperate for bargains.’
• This could be a reference to the harsh reality of being a sex worker, that it’s not all pretty, that sex workers are often mistreated. Or it could be a reference to shaming women, with a ‘shriek’ at the taboo nature of the prostitute’s job: ‘Birds shrieked and voided themselves in her stone hair’