In New York, the journalist and compulsive liar Rebecca Bloomwood is an addicted consumer that can not resist shopping fashionable clothes and outfits in fancy shops and has several unplayable debts with the credit cards. She dreams on working in the fashion magazine Alette owned by the sophisticated Alette Naylor, but she does not succeed in her intent. When Becky loses her job, she drinks a lot of booze with her best friend Suze and sends an offensive letter to the editor Luke Brandon from the financial magazine "Successful Saving" and an article to Alette to show her potential. However, she unintentionally switches the correspondences in the mailbox and Luke hires her to write a column called "The Girl in the Green Scarf" in his magazine using a simple language and metaphors that could be easily understood by common people. Meanwhile the debt collector Derek Smeath is chasing Becky and she is avoiding him everywhere, telling that he is an ex-boyfriend that is stalking her. When her column becomes a success, Becky is invited to participate in a talk show and Luke and she fall in love for each other. However, her lies and debts put her in a difficult situation with her audience, Suze and Luke.

After Rebecca's first Shopaholics meeting, Amy Winehouse's "Rehab" can be heard playing in the background of many scenes. For instance, it is also used as elevator music.

Graham Bloomwood:
Your mother and I think that if the American economy can be billions in debt and still survive, so can you.

Continuity: At Rebecca's first meeting at the savings company, she pulls out a small notebook and lays a pencil to the left of that notebook. In the next shot as she's pulling out a small pencil sharpener, the pencil is seen on the opposite side of the notebook.

Written and Performed by Ric Ocasek
Courtesy of Geffen Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises