Shop or shopping refers to:
Business and commerce
* A casual word for a
commercial establishment or for a place of business
* Machine shop, a workshop for
machining
Machining is a process in which a material (often metal) is cut to a desired final shape and size by a controlled material-removal process. The processes that have this common theme are collectively called subtractive manufacturing, which utilizes ...
*"In the shop", referring to a car being at an
automotive repair shop
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wood shop
Woodworking is the skill of making items from wood, and includes cabinet making (cabinetry and furniture), wood carving, joinery, carpentry, and woodturning.
History
Along with stone, clay and animal parts, wood was one of the first materials ...
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Retail shop
Retail is the sale of goods and services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is sale to business or institutional customers. A retailer purchases goods in large quantities from manufacturers, directly or through a wholesaler, and t ...
, possibly within a marketplace
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Shopping
Shopping is an activity in which a customer browses the available goods or services presented by one or more retailers with the potential intent to purchase a suitable selection of them. A Retail#Shopper profiles, typology of shopper types ha ...
, e.g.:
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Christmas shopping
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Comparison shopping
Shopping is an activity in which a customer browses the available goods or services presented by one or more retailers with the potential intent to purchase a suitable selection of them. A typology of shopper types has been developed by scho ...
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Grocery shopping
A grocery store ( AE), grocery shop ( BE) or simply grocery is a store that primarily retails a general range of food products, which may be fresh or packaged. In everyday U.S. usage, however, "grocery store" is a synonym for supermarket, an ...
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Online shopping
Online shopping is a form of electronic commerce which allows consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the Internet using a web browser or a mobile app. Consumers find a product of interest by visiting the website of the r ...
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Window shopping
Window shopping, sometimes called browsing, refers to an activity in which a consumer browses through or examines a store's merchandise as a form of leisure or external search behaviour without a current intent to buy. Depending on the individua ...
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''
The Shop
''The Shop: Uninterrupted'', or simply ''The Shop'', is an American television talk show created by Paul Rivera. It stars professional basketball star LeBron James and businessman Maverick Carter, who alongside guests have conversations and deba ...
'', an American television talk show
* "Shops", an essay by the Hong Kong writer
Xi Xi
* The Shop, a fictional government agency which appears in various works by Stephen King, including ''
Firestarter'' and ''
Golden Years''
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The Shoppe, an American country music group
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The Shopping Channel, a Canadian home shopping channel
* "Shop", a track from
the soundtrack of the 2015 video game ''Undertale'' by Toby Fox
Brands and enterprises
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SHoP Architects, a New York-based architectural firm
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Shop.ca
SHOP.CA is a Canadian coupons and savings website.
Overview
Founded in 2011, SHOP.CA originally allowed approved partners to list and sell products on their website for customers to purchase. SHOP.CA had about 15 million different SKUs on its web ...
, a Canadian online e-commerce website
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Shopify (NYSE: SHOP)
Science and technology
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.shop
.shop is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) launched in September 2016. Nine companies including Google, Amazon and Famous Four Media filed applications for .shop in the 2012 ICANN new gTLD application round. GMO Registry became the registry oper ...
, a top-level domain
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Shell higher olefin process, or SHOP, a chemical process for the production of α-olefins
Other uses
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Shop, Rajasthan, a town in Tonk district, Rajasthan, India
* "Shop class", an
industrial arts educational program
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Workshop
Beginning with the Industrial Revolution era, a workshop may be a room, rooms or building which provides both the area and tools (or machinery) that may be required for the manufacture or repair of manufactured goods. Workshops were the only ...
See also
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