shop the stores
idiom
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: to look throughout stores for something
They shopped the stores in search of gift ideas.
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Customers can still shop the stores' major product categories such as laptops and cellphones, but there are fewer items on the sales floor with the most popular products on display.
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Nicole Norfleet, Star Tribune, 12 Dec. 2020
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Nicole Norfleet, Star Tribune, 12 Dec. 2020
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