walk-in customer
Unscheduled drop-in buyer
A walk-in customer is someone who arrives at a business without an appointment or reservation, as opposed to those who schedule in advance: We accept walk-in customers on a first-come, first-served basis.
The term appears most often in contexts where appointments are common—salons, clinics, restaurants—to distinguish spontaneous visitors from scheduled ones.
- drop-inUnscheduled brief visit
- browserWeb access program
- shopperOne who purchases goods
- spontaneousArising without external cause
- impulseSudden urge to act
just browsing · unannounced · cold call · storefront · brick and mortar · retail · counter · casual · browse · footfall · street · open door · passerby · window-shopping · cash · register · foot traffic · greeting
- walk-ins
- Newsstand Itemsnewspaper, magazine, tabloid, comic book, periodical
- shoppersshoppers, bargain hunters, window shopper, impulse buyers, window shoppers