For many, shopping is a recreational activity where a visiting several stores in search of a suitable product to purchase. "Window shopping" is an activity which customers engage in, visit the shops, without intent to purchase, possibly just putting the time between other activities or to plan a later purchase.
To some, shopping is a task of inconvenience and vexation. Shoppers sometimes goes to great lengths to wait in long queues to buy popular products as typically observed with early customers, and holiday shopping.
Recently compulsive shopping has been recognized as an addiction. Also known as shopping addiction, "shopaholism" or formally oniomania these customers have an impulsive uncontrollable urge to go shopping. The term "retail therapy" is used in a less serious context.
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