showroomingn.
/ˈʃəʊruːmɪŋ/, /ˈʃəʊrʊmɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈʃoʊˌrumɪŋ/, /ˈʃoʊˌrʊmɪŋ/ Originally U.S.
The action of going to a showroom or showrooms to view goods or merchandise; spec. the practice of visiting a shop or shops in order to examine a product before buying it online at a lower price.
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2009 @sheenugrover 24 Oct. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Back from a loooooong day of showrooming.
2011 Publishers Weekly (Electronic ed.) 12 Dec. If ‘showrooming’ wasn't part of the industry lexicon before last week, it is now, thanks to Amazon's price check app.
2015 Bournemouth Echo (Nexis) 28 Apr. She said the business could overcome ‘showrooming’... ‘We will hopefully be able to give them the service they expect and our staff will be able to convert them into sales,’ she said.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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