Shopping is good times.  "Shopping Addiction" has a more psychosocial perspective when people refer to it though.
I must adsmit that i have never heard of anyone having a shopping addiction.
It's a concept similar to "Compulsive Buying Disorder" which has to do with impulse control more than anything.
Is this type of disorder widespread in the population?
It depends on who is diagnosing them.  Some would say certain addictions are nothing more than behavioral manifestations brought about by ones environment.
so a magician could be a compulsive shopper?  I am afraid i don't understand.
Sure, anyone with any occupation could be addicted to shopping.  It is however a drug free addiction like gambling.
I dont like those meth heads knocking on my door and trying to sell me a bag of garbage for a dollar.  You keep up the good work.  I hope you get your addiction under control.
Behavioural manifestations.
There are three kinds of behavioural manifestations of shopping addiction, with different repercussions. These can be displayed together or independently and in more or less intense ways. Nevertheless, they are closely related and appear joined in people who seriously suffer from this disorder.
First is the attraction towards the consumer stimulus, which is the addiction to purchasing as a leisure activity. This is about the uncontrolled and excessive draw to use shopping as a leisure activity, usually in an exclusive and overwhelming way. While activities
Shopping addiction
Shopping addiction is defined as the deficiency of impulse control which appears as the eagerness for constantly making new purchases of unnecessary or superfluous things. It is a concept similar to "compulsive buying disorder" and "oniomania", although these terms usually have a more clinical approach, related to a psychological individual disorder of impulse control. The phrase “shopping addiction” usually has a more psychosocial perspective . or it is placed among drug-free addictions like the addiction to gambling, Internet, or video-games.