shop
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Arnold argued that even if the technology was as accurate as Sainsbury's claimed, the 0.2% error rate is "a lot of people when millions go into a Sainsbury's shop each week".
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Last week, I wrote about the pasta that finally taught me how to shop at the farmers market.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Jacob said: "I think if you were to buy a suit from a shop you'd be tempted to go with more of a safe option whereas with this, you're forced to try other things."
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
The survey also found that, regardless of income, boomers shop for bargains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
There were only two employees in the watch shop in 1898, the clock man and Father’s young apprentice-errand boy.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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The $200-million shopping center, which first opened in 2018, is 99% leased, with one-third of the shops are new, including an Italian steakhouse called Spacca Tutto by chef Nancy Silverton and women’s apparel retailer LESET.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Tseng remembers going to coffee shops at 10 p.m. and blogging into the early hours of the morning.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
She said she and Jacob, who are both 32, love buying from charity shops and wanted to encourage more people to do so.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Their shops down narrow alleys sit dark behind faded signs advertising "traditional fortune-telling houses".
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Trying another angle, the agents visited magician supply shops around the city.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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“An entire generation of consumers has shopped and purchased air travel under this system, and we believe a change could be extremely disruptive,” Southwest wrote in its request.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
He hadn’t shopped for a new car in years and was stunned by the prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Over the past two years, the organization openly shopped for what it called a new “steward”—language that left the door open to a sale.
From Slate ● May 8, 2026
Others said the old rewards system was the only reason they shopped at Lidl and that they would now go elsewhere.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
If he has shopped alone, he will have spent too much.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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Trying to have separate point solutions for various parts of the shopping process meant that sometimes various teams were spending money and resources on duplicative things, according to Pavlovich.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
A video, external of the incident shows the elderly man patting the child on the head as he walked past her table at a food court in a shopping centre.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
“There’s a lot of appeal to younger consumers in a style that is still fairly fresh to them, because maybe they weren’t shopping when ballet flats were last popular,” she said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
The new rules could make comparison shopping sites such as Expedia and Kayak harder to use.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Before Camille got busy with school and friends and extracurriculars, she and Mom used to go shopping together on Michigan Avenue.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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