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The sport where the prize is a bag and the opponent is your budget.
means The activity of browsing or buying goods, whether out of need, boredom, or the simple love of acquiring things.
from From 'shop,' tracing back to Old English 'sceoppa' (a booth or stall), probably related to German 'Schoppen.' The verb sense of 'to go shopping' only blossomed in the 1700s, once shops became places you browsed for pleasure, not just transacted business.
- word shift
- Verb shopping appeared only in the 1760s
- retail therapy
- Coined in 1986 by the Chicago Tribune
- online surge
- E-commerce overtook catalogs faster than anyone predicted
- decision fatigue
- More choices measurably reduce purchase satisfaction