deshopper

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ shopper.

Noun

deshopper (plural deshoppers)

1. (chiefly UK, social sciences) A person who practises deshopping.
   • 1999, Ruth A. Schmidt et al., “Deshopping – the art of illicit consumption”, in International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, →DOI:

     The deshopper is “stealing beauty” and robbing the product of some of its undetectable essence, without losing the quality of newness which is required for the product to remain returnable.

   • 2004 December 8, “Deshoppers Make Returns”, in Metro‎^[1]:

     They are the deshoppers - a scam that has cost stores £63million this year.

   • 2006, Tamira King, Charles Dennis, “Unethical consumers: Deshopping behaviour using the qualitative analysis of theory of planned behaviour and accompanied (de)shopping”, in Qualitative Market Research, →DOI:

     […] there is almost no actual control over the behaviour as none of the deshoppers interviewed had ever been caught.

Related terms

• deshopping