[paulddraper]

> One simple problem, bizarrely enough, was the airport architect, Meinhard von Gerkan's dislike of shopping.

> Joel Dullroy, a Berlin-based journalist with Radio Spaetkauf, who produced a podcast telling this airport's story, says Mr Gerkan wrote disdainfully about passengers "dragging around unwanted bottles of whisky like a beggar" and wanted to have as few airport shops as possible.

> But when the airport company realised this - very late in the day - it insisted on adding whole new floors of shopping into the design, as the company now makes up to 50% of its revenue from retail.

Yeah, that's gonna do it.