Shopping is the examining of goods or services from retailers with the intent to purchase at that time. Shopping is an activity of selection and/or purchase. In some contexts it is considered a leisure activity as well as an economic one. (wikipedia)
SHOPPING MANNERS
It might be well to say a word here
concerning shopping manners, since, after all, they have a certain
bearing upon one's efficiency in buying. Clerks are very human. While
the reputable stores are improving working conditions by giving to the
employees rest-rooms, roof gardens, summer camps, and other means for
recreation and happiness, the fact still remains that the clerk's life
is very monotonous. A thoughtful person always shows courtesy and
consideration to the clerk, even tho the latter seems distraught and
stupid. She often expresses her appreciation to one who serves her
efficiently.
The shopper's free use of the privilege
of having goods sent on approval is increasing the cost of service.
Every time you carry home a package, you are decreasing the cost of
service and helping the one who serves.
There are a few women whose chief
diversion is to shop by "just looking." If the "just looking" without
reason or intent to buy consumes the time of the clerk, she may be
missing a chance to make a sale, and every sale she makes helps her to
her quota—and in many places if she goes over her quota, she gets a
bonus. A bonus may mean for her a vacation, a course of lectures, or
lessons in music. Merchants are anxious to have goods shown to those
who are interested, and no sales-woman will resent such a waste of her
time; but if the hour of the day is a busy one, the shopper should be
considerately quick in her decisions. If she can not decide within a
reasonable time, she should release the clerk and take her own time to
"think it over."