Why do some people seem to feel a need to touch everything in order to shop?

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Some are just touchy feely types, I tend to pick up and look (inspect) just the items I might be interested in, but I have seen what you are saying and some people just have to touch freakin everything for some reason, weather they are interested in the item or not.

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