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Updated: June 23, 2025
"I would like to," answered Carrie wistfully, "but this is my hour to practice for the cantata. Bye-bye!" Carrie whisked across the hall to her room and Tabitha, haunted by that careless question, descended the stairs to wait for the group of shoppers to gather.
Complete service in every detail, beginning with the purchase of the goods, and ending with delivery to customers, guaranteeing every article sold to be exactly as represented, or cheerfully refunding the money. The development of these great businesses is largely the product of better service, and this service has been effective in winning the favor of shoppers.
Mrs. deForest Caswell was an attractive woman verging on forty, a chance acquaintance at a shoppers' tea room downtown who had proved to be an uptown neighbor. "I have had some rather strange experiences, Mildred," confessed Constance tentatively. "Why!" "Because " the other woman hesitated, then added, "why should I not tell you! Last night, Constance, I had the strangest dream.
The scattering of last-minute shoppers along the streets showed that most of the citizens were laying in supplies to last until after election. Gordon passed the First Marsport Bank and saw that it was surrounded by barbed wires, with other strands still being strung, and with a sign proclaiming that there was high voltage in the wires.
I let me whisper it so she'll not hear I want to get her a Christmas present and it is one I can't select in her absence." They made the round of the shops, gay with Christmas decorations and thronged with merry shoppers. Anne was full of eager excitement. Mrs. Patterson gave her a little purse full of shining silver pieces, which she was to spend as she pleased.
The shop smelled of evergreen, and was full of Christmas shoppers, men and women and children; but of them all, the star looked at no one but a little boy standing in front of the counter; for as soon as the star saw the child it knew that he was the one to whom it belonged.
He flew through the city one afternoon quite invisible to moral eyes, but seeing everything himself and noticed a figure of a wax lady standing behind the big plate glass window of Mr. Floman's department store. This impressive announcement had drawn before the window a crowd of women shoppers, who stood looking at the wax lady with critical eyes.
Amongst the throng of Saturday-night shoppers I saw none of the drunkenness that one sees so often in Scottish streets, and in English cities, and, I grieve to say, even in some New England towns. In the Welsh quarter Sunday was much more the Sabbath than it was on the Terrace, where indeed it seemed a day of pleasure rather than praise.
I felt somehow as if I couldn't do the things I wanted to, if they set there just the same." Jane could only look at her in silence. "Well," she said, at length, "it takes all kinds o' people to make a world!" That, at least, was non-committal. She left the shoppers at her own gate, and they walked on together. Lucindy was the more excited of the two.
A staff notice about the early closing of the previous day had been pinned up near the door, and printed information relating to a trip to the Isle of Man, balloting for the use of motor-cars on Sundays, and a gratis book entitled 'Human Nature in Shoppers, were also prominent.
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