Killer Scene

I think that an good scene in a story about a murder who travels from city to city setting up new identities who is a "strong and silent type". The scene would be of the person shopping for household items for a new city they have moved into. The murder would be very knowledgeable about housewares and would have individual taste. This would provide character background, character development and it would be simple enough to choose the items that he picks out to be ones with strong symbolic meaning.