Chapter 7 - 3. Shopping and Other Spiritual Adventures in America Today - Questions: Read once again the title of the essay. What assumption underlies the title? If, as Rose says, Caldor, Waldbaum’s, and Bob’s Surplus were the “cathedrals” (para. 11) of her time—the 1980s—what are our “cathedrals” now? Consider the impact of online shopping. How has that phenomenon changed the economic landscape that Rose describes?