My take away from this is the phrase combat shopper

This is my experience also. Me and the wife are both combat shoppers. We plan, we go in, cart blazing, we execute the plan, we get out and away. If either of us was the other kind of shopper, it wouldn't work really.

My mode depends on what I'm shopping for and how much time is available, whether I feel like wandering, and whether I know the store at all.

Let's say I need, idk, a 6TB drive from Microcenter but I have like an hour to get it. Combat mode.

By contrast, this morning I felt like looking for some used blu rays at the thrift store and also felt like being a looky-loo.

If it is something we are both shopping for like garden decor, or we are there to browse like for antiques or furniture, then it's fun browsing.

I kind of feel like combat shopping is better solo. Unless the person can walk fast and help me find the thing if I don't have precise Intel on location.

Having another person could be redundant unless you don't know exactly what you want and need to compare and discuss a few candidate items.

Aaah, this describes me too. I particularly hate thrift shopping, because I always want something specific and the likelihood of finding it in a thrift shop is slim to none. I value my time more than a chance of monetary savings, I guess.

I vary between combat and lookeeloo, depending on the shop.

I take after my mother: I'm a Combat Shopper.

My father, on the other hand, was very much a lookie-loo shopper.

There’s always two types of people, and they usually marry each other.

I love this classification!

What mode I'm in depends why I'm at the store. Am I getting specific items and GTFO or am I looking for a solution for a problem. I cook a lot so I know what I want and when I go to the grocery store, it's fast. If I'm looking for a solution, potentially to fix or remodel something I'll probably peruse through home Depot for some time.

Totally! You explained it really well.

My partner and I are the lookie-loo shoppers. We often cover stores aisle by aisle. It's entertaining for us for different reasons. We like to see what people are buying, especially things like books, clothes, etc. We like to talk about the products and the things that follow; for example, we start by noticing the variety of flavors in pets food and end up talking about animals, foods, etc. We like to learn about new products, as we are often out of the loop and it's nice to find new gadgets or kitchen accessories this way. We try new things, like "try me" lotions or whatever. Overall, it is a fun experience.

Is your wife named Donna?

I'll add hitting on the mannequins and slapping their asses when I walk by.

I can relate so much. Have older 2 sisters and only my mom would bring us shopping. Little ol me was dragged to all sorts of girly places I had no desire to be in. So much make up, clothes, bath bombs, fancy soap shops, I wanted to tear my eyes out.

I love that take, thank you

My wife also hates clothes shopping. She used to get stressed out about it to the point where she would put it off until it was absolutely necessary, and then I would need to go and help her find things at the store.

Thankfully, she has got over that now. She still doesn't like clothes shopping and puts it off as bit. But when she needs to, she has more patience when looking for clothing and doesn't need (or want) me there to suggest things. So it's pretty much a perfect situation (for me at least).

Interesting. I went shopping to a big mall by myself recently to shop to replace my slightly rubbish clothes selection. I had remote help from someone I know who would say "you need a baby blue t shirt, it goes with your eye colour" and I'd go out and find one of those that I liked.

Now you mention it, that is much more of a game/scavenger hunt. Perhaps that's why I preferred it!

As a guy, this is why I love working from home since Pandemic. Since I no longer have to look professional, most of my clothes shopping is online order from CarHart or LLBean

Yeah that worked for us for a lot of years. I don’t have the patience for shopping, especially for clothes, but I could spend an entire day walking around chatting with my ex (when we were together). I wouldn’t even pay attention to where we were or what we stopped at because then I wouldn’t like it

This makes me happy

Also neat seeing you in the wild! Usually see you on your main community :D

See above from elbucho, I guess that makes you a combat shopper!

Hah, we had the opposite. I’m your stereotypical oblivious person who never paid attention to style and fit. My clothing choices got so much better with my ex’s help

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