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Someone who confuses browsing for buying and calls it research.
means A person engaged in the act of looking at, comparing, or purchasing goods, whether or not any money ever changes hands.
from Traces back to 'shop' as a place of trade, itself from Old English 'sceoppa,' meaning a booth or small storehouse, related to German 'Schuppen' (a shed). The verb 'to shop' — to visit shops to buy or browse — emerged later, and '-er' simply tacked on the doer. The 'shop till you drop' version of the word is modern; the booth it came from was humble and purely practical.
- origin
- from shop, 1400s word for small stall
- economics
- drives two-thirds of GDP in consumer economies
- psychology
- decides most purchases in under 13 seconds
- myth
- comparison shopping rarely changes the final choice