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Updated: October 17, 2025
That much-experienced shopper led her a leisurely course up one dazzling aisle and down another, pausing ruthlessly to look and to handle and to comment, even if she had not the least intention of buying.
And it was a nice week at school after the boys got done asking him "Who his Barber was?" He could see the big B they put to it. On Saturday afternoon Mrs. Reed had to go out shopping with a cousin. She was an excellent shopper. She could find flaws, and beat down, and get a spool of cotton or a piece of tape thrown in.
She wants every cent to go to Wal-Mart to buy toys for her beloved grandbabies so they will smile at her and reach for her before they do their own mommies. She likes babies: the thought of them fills her with dopamines and endorphins; and the inveterate shopper that she is, buying for them couldn't make her much higher. Such neurotransmitters run amuck in her.
Good-bye, darling. You're delightfully quick! 'Yes, I don't waste time, said Miss Bennett. 'Mother says, too, that I'm the best shopper in the world. She turned round to add, 'I'm dying to know why you want to look so pretty. Who is it? With a quiet smile, Edith dismissed her. You're quite celebrated as a collector of Last Editions, aren't you?
The most inveterate "shopper" would be satisfied with the amount of running about and bargaining which can be got out of buying a fur cloak and a cap! The national cap has a soft velvet crown, surrounded by a broad band of sable or otter, is always in fashion, and lasts forever.
I hadn't the fare for a ride on the surface or elevated cars, where I might have found an opportunity to relieve some traveller of his purse, and as for snatching such a thing from some shopper, it was Sunday and the women who would have been an easy prey on a bargain-day carried neither purse nor side-bag with them. I was in despair, and then the pealing bells of St.
Here and there a morning shopper was passing along the street. At the post-office there was quite a crowd. Skinny carried the shirt, wrapped in the soggy, rain-soaked newspaper. As he and the Ramblin' Kid came near the dingy, general merchandise establishment kept by the squint-eyed Jew from whom Parker had bought the unfortunate garment a sudden look of cunning gleamed in the eyes of Skinny.
It was with relief that she recognized the name on one of the stores as being of world-wide reputation. Well for her that she was an experienced shopper. She went straight to the millinery department and arranged to have the hat boxed and sent to the address Dunham had given her. Her gentle voice and handsome rain-coat proclaimed her a lady and commanded deference and respectful attention.
I believe it is not because of lack of government intervention, but because of government intervention itself, our food system is very perverse. Until our mass consciousness changes, if you wish to make yourself and your family truly healthy, you are going to have to take charge and become quite a discriminating shopper.
"I thought we would go to Harrods or the Haymarket Stores," said Mrs. Wilcox rather hopelessly. "Everything is sure to be there. I am not a good shopper. The din is so confusing, and your aunt is quite right one ought to make a list. Take my notebook, then, and write your own name at the top of the page. "Oh, hooray!" said Margaret, writing it. "How very kind of you to start with me!"
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