window-shopper

It is a delicate balance of reinforcing the physical product in the window-shopper’s mind and recreating the “moment of inspiration” that may have originally piqued the person’s interest, he says.

The book-sniffer is the active form of his classier cousin the stroller, as the window-shopper is the dreamier form of the curator.

As a result, they meander anonymously through the store without any indication of who the biggest potential customer is, who the most loyal customer is, or who proverbial window-shopper is.

An inveterate fisherman, he contrived a one-man kickless harpoon gun to spear whales; a window-shopper, he invented a one-piece display lamp and reflector for shopkeepers, then founded a successful electric company to produce the unit, though he admittedly did not know the difference between an ohm and a kilowatt.

Relatives In Portland, Maine, police finally restored to his family a wandering little window-shopper who had somehow lost his bearings: nine-year-old Robert E. Peary III, exploratory grandson of the late Arctic explorer.