Shopping facts for kids

Two Egyptian women shopping at a market next to the Al-Ghouri Complex in Cairo, Egypt.

Market Hall, Gdansk, Poland

Shopping is an activity. People who go shopping visit shops. They may go to buy things, or just to look. Those people are called "shoppers"

Characteristics

In some places, shopping is considered an important activity or even a hobby.

There it is a television program called Shop till you drop. It is a gameshow for shoppers.

Shoppers at a souk in Tunisia
Advertising image of a man shopping for Christmas presents, United States, 1918
A woman shopping in Japan, 2016
Remains of marketplace and retail shops at Trajan's Forum in Rome
An early 17th-century shop, with customers being served through an opening onto the street
Bernard Mandeville's work The Fable of the Bees, which justified conspicuous consumption.
Royal Arcade, Sydney, 1892
Le Bon Marché, founded in Paris, offered a wide variety of goods in "departments" inside one building, from 1851.
Window shopping in Ottawa, 1938
Deb Haaland shopping at a thrift store in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2019.
Sales being made at Soulard Market, St. Louis, Missouri, drawing by Marguerite Martyn, 1912
Window shopping in the rain