Shopping (activity)

thumb|upright=1.3|The Grand Bazaar, Istanbul|Grand Bazaar in [[Istanbul, Turkey]] A bazaar or souk is a marketplace consisting of multiple small stalls or shops, especially in the Middle East, the Balkans, Central Asia, North Africa and South Asia. They are traditionally located in vaulted or covered streets that have doors on each end and served as a city's central marketplace.

thumb|Shoppers at a souk in Tunisia thumb|right|Advertising image of a man shopping for Christmas presents, United States, 1918 thumb|A woman shopping in Japan, 2016

hours in which a shop does business

shopping to improve one's mood

activity: consumer browses through a store's merchandise as a form of leisure or external search behaviour without a current intent to buy

obsession with shopping and buying behavior