18 new york | december 23, 2019–january 5, 2020
Where’s the Party?:
Allison P. Davis
Adventures
in Liquid Shopping
Did you know
you can get plastered
at Nordstrom?
A dressing room at Nordstrom.
there’s drunk shopping, and there’s Drunk! Shopping! The
former is a truly pedestrian experience: tipsily shopping online
from bed only to receive, a day or two later, a large mystery pack-
age that contains a single electric-toothbrush replacement head.
But Drunk! Shopping! is something different. Something beauti-
ful, really. It’s me in the shoe department at the new seven-floor,
320,000-square-foot Nordstrom flagship at 12:03 p.m. on a
weekday, sipping my third “Greenwich Village,” a prosecco-based
cocktail that guarantees I will have a hangover by three.
Since the store opened in midtown Manhattan in October,
most of the reviews have mentioned a feature that sounds more
like an urban legend. Following an afternoon spent testing the
limits, I can assure you the mentions are true: This new Nord-
strom has a liquor license. In addition to drinking in the five res-
taurants and two full- service bars, you can have drinks and snacks
delivered to you while you fondle the clothing racks or try on shoes
Photograph by Landon Nordeman
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18 newyork| december23,2019–january5, 2020
Where’s the Party?:
Allison P. Davis
Adventures
in Liquid Shopping
Did you know
you can get plastered
at Nordstrom?
A dressing room at Nordstrom.
there’s drunk shopping, and there’s Drunk! Shopping! The
former is a truly pedestrian experience: tipsily shopping online
from bed only to receive, a day or two later, a large mystery pack-
age that contains a single electric-toothbrush replacement head.
But Drunk! Shopping! is something different. Something beauti-
ful, really. It’s me in the shoe department at the new seven-floor,
320,000-square-foot Nordstrom flagship at 12:03 p.m. on a
weekday, sipping my third “Greenwich Village,” a prosecco-based
cocktail that guarantees I will have a hangover by three.
Since the store opened in midtown Manhattan in October,
most of the reviews have mentioned a feature that sounds more
like an urban legend. Following an afternoon spent testing the
limits, I can assure you the mentions are true: This new Nord-
strom has a liquor license. In addition to drinking in thefive res-
taurants and two full- service bars, you can have drinks and snacks
delivered to you while you fondle the clothing racks or try on shoes
Photograph by Landon Nordeman
intelligencer