Shopping

Shoppers looking around for books and toys

Shopping is an activity in which a customer browses the available goods or services presented by one or more retailers with the intent to purchase a suitable selection of them. In some contexts it may be considered a leisure activity as well as an economic one.

Quotes

• Shopping, true feminine felicity!
  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, (1831) Volume I, Chapter 5

• Ah, human felicity! to have at once so many wants suggested and supplied! Wretched Grecian daughters! miserable Roman matrons! to whom shopping was an unknown pleasure, what did, what could employ them?
  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, (1831) Volume I, Chapter 10

See also

• Consumerism