I was in a supermarket a while back that had this cunning plan to stretch Sunday trading a bit. They opened for longer than their legitimate hours by not taking any money for the first half an hour.
In their words, there was half an hour for 'Customers to Browse'
This made me laugh as i wanted to know what definition of 'browse' they were ascribing to. I assume the first, 'shopping without purchasing'. I was wondering though what would happen if I started eating and nibbling various items and when challenged directed them to the 2nd (and equally legitimate) meaning: "the act of feeding by continual nibbling"
I think it would be great fun saying that I was merely taking up their generous offer of 'time to browse'
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