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We have an equivalent to this kind of exuberance in the 21st century, which is shops.
My favourite in the UK is this, the Argos Catalogue. Argos is a catalogue shop but they have physical stores. So you choose your product out of this thousand-paged catalogue, then you go to the shop and they bring it from their warehouse for you while you wait. They sell high-end and low-end, so it’s a really good way to get a handle on what kind of things people are buying. I love looking through the toys.