The art of the walk-away

You’ve done it before — now you just have a name for it. The Food Section offers a definition for that moment you decide to leave a store because it’s simply taking too long to purchase what you want:

walk-a·ways (noun): Retail customers so frustrated by store checkout lines that they leave a shop without completing their purchases.

It’s always a difficult decision to walk away because of the time you’ve got invested in a given errand even before you get to the register. If it’s a big-box store, there’s the drive over and then the endless trudge down the massive aisles. In some respects, it’s easier to leave a smaller store because you’re not yet committed.