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shopping

activity in which a customer browses goods or services with the potential intent to purchase
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Summary

shopping ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,111 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: economic activity[2]
  • Commons category: Shopping[3]
  • Has part(s): evaluation[4], comparison[5], bargaining[6]
  • Participant: customer[7], vendor[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Shopping (activity)[9]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C81006[10]
  • Different from: purchasing[11]
  • Has goal: purchasing[12]

Why It Matters

shopping has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] shopping is known by 55 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). shopping. Retrieved October 17, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/shopping-q830036
MLA “shopping.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 17 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/shopping-q830036.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_shopping-q830036_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{shopping}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/shopping-q830036}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-17}}
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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Verbaalpina id → C19196
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Verbaalpina id: C19196, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1786955435161"
  2. 16w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oxford classical dictionary id → 8003
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Oxford classical dictionary id: 8003, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/107287895|shops and shopping (#107287895)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4102|Oxfo"
  3. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → shopping
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: shopping, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289959333|shopping (#289959333)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n"
  4. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0005461-nakupovani
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0005461-nakupovani, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Participant → customer, vendor
    Has parts → —
    Subclass of → economic activity
    Topic's main category → Category:Shopping (activity)
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 8575, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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