Is browsing what you enjoy most about shopping?⁣

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With shopping restrictions now in place as a result of Covid-19 – things like social distancing, closed changing rooms, intense cleaning procedures, the inability for multiple customers to touch the same things consecutively – the future of browsing could be in jeopardy.

A study shows that browsing forms an aspect of our personality - people fantasised as they browsed – like playing a kind of make-believe. And for some recreational shopping enthusiasts, browsing is a “central facet of life… that transcends enjoyment and other dimensions of leisure”.⁣

We predict retailers will devise ingenious ways we can browse, from online experiential events through to more sophisticated window displays.⁣