OK - here’s the thing. For a conjugal relationship between a man & woman to work for any length of time without disintegrating into a pile of broken crockery and bitterness, they must at all costs AVOID GOING SHOPPING TOGTHER. The effect of shopping on a relationship is akin to locking a couple in a room and forcing them to explain in minute detail what they still find attractive and fatasise about in all their ex-es.