Sentence examples for slow shopping from inspiring English sources

She calls her retail concept "slow shopping" -- the retail equivalent, she said, of the slow-food movement.

From this notion sprang the wider "slow" movement, which now includes slow travel, slow shopping and even slow design.

Though they use the word "pleasure" a lot, I can't help thinking that there is something rather sad about people who bang on about the joys of "slow shopping", and its kissing cousin "slow food"; this always seems to mark out a dull and dreary nostalgia-hound with too much time on their hands and a morbid fear of modernity.

On the Thanksgiving holiday, November 22, usually a relatively slow shopping day, sales for those internet retailers rose more than 25% from a year ago, as many retailers started their discounting a day earlier than usual.

Despite the slow shopping spree at Longs, I purchased the five items for $54.48.

And privatizing compassion may tempt the state to neglect problems; then, when a recession slows shopping, AIDS orphans languish waiting for you to buy sunglasses.

Launching a product for Christmas forces a company to manufacture more of it to meet the higher demand than during a slower shopping season.

And she fetishises the family, as slow-shop lovers so often do, as in her comment that "in every European city, family-run bars and shops have held their own against global-market madness", and her later reference to "family-run concerns who spend much of their income where they live".

The farmers' markets inspired me to slow my shopping habits, mosey from stall to stall and try new things: 18-inch-long beans; brussels sprouts on a three-foot stalk shouting freshness, complete with leaves on top and dirt clinging to the roots; knobby celeriac with an on-the-spot soup recipe and some food philosophy from the farmer.

And that's proven to be no different in the digital age, where a slow online shopping site or a hard-to-navigate mobile app is all it takes to create a digital experience that's subpar – for humans.

The control group will maintain its original usual physical activities, which normally include housework, daily living activities, slow walking, shopping and babysitting, and they will not receive any regular exercise intervention during the 12-week intervention period.