Women love to meander through sprawling clothing and accessory collections or detour through the shoe department. Shopping for a woman tends to be more invested in the shopping experience and having it done on many dimensions. While men on the other hand shopping is a mission.
Men are out to buy a targeted item and flee the store as quickly as possible. In virtually every society in the world, women have primary care-giving responsibilities for both children and the elderly (and often, just about everybody else in-between). In this primary caregiving role, women find themselves buying on behalf of everyone else in their lives.
The list is long: in addition to buying for themselves, women buy on behalf of husbands, partners, kids, colleagues, adult children, friends, relatives, elderly parents, in-laws, their businesses and even their kids’ friends, to name just a few.
If somebody, somewhere needs a gift, chances are there’s a woman thinking about it; tracking it down; wrapping it; making sure it’s accompanied by a personal message and then arriving to the person on the appointed day.
I sometimes think entire industries would collapse overnight if women stopped being so thoughtful and being constant buyers. Women love shopping as well, we take our time to select something until we get what we really want.
With that said and done, we now understand how shopping experience is different for both genders. Some men have tried to convince themselves otherwise by accompanying their wives for a shopping spree. Below are some photos of how some men kept themselves busy;
One man could not get a hold of himself, he was probably tired of waiting:
Another one settled on sitting along the corridor:
Maybe surfing through the net wasn’t such a bad idea after all;
Some were too tired to wait;
