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merchandiser

American  
[mur-chuhn-dahy-zer, -dahy-] / ˈmɜr tʃənˌdaɪ zər, -ˌdaɪ- /

noun

  • merchandisers
    plural
  1. a person or company that buys and sells goods; a merchant or retailer.

    Each year our “vendor village” is full of merchandisers who add to the tournament’s festival-like atmosphere.

  2. a person who plans or manages the arrangement and promotion of goods, including location, signage, etc., in a store.

    How the merchandiser of this collection of cookbooks managed to get them all into a single attractive display, I'll never know.

  3. a display unit for stores, designed to hold goods of a specific kind.

    The manufacturer has launched a new professional wood screw, with a countertop merchandiser allowing stores to showcase all the screw’s features.


Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of merchandiser

merchandise ( def. ) + -er 1 ( def. )


Example Sentences

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PCC Community Markets merchandiser Noah Smith said the grocery chain does get some of its eggs from the Midwest through a central distributor.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2023

She opened Stuff next door to the restaurant three years ago after leaving her corporate job as a visual merchandiser.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2022

"More than anything, the market is just in a panic," Andrew Jackson, a Kentucky grain merchandiser, told Reuters.

From Reuters ● Mar. 21, 2022

After she performed on singer Johnnie Ray’s popular TV show, reportedly as a last-minute substitute, a deluge of fan letters drew the attention of the show’s sponsor, an appliance merchandiser.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2022

If ye are the merchandiser I think ye are, ye'll try to cut doon stock investment and keep up your sales—and increase 'em, thus speeding up your turn-over.

From Dawson Black: Retail Merchant by Harold Whitehead

While artists own their names, likenesses and logos under intellectual-property trademarks, music merchandisers say government enforcement is limited.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

And while that continues, she says, foreign designers and merchandisers will do the same.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2025

For nearly a century, filmmakers, theater makers, writers, composers, radio producers and merchandisers have reimagined the work.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2023

Demand for vinyl records has been growing in double-digits for more than a decade and mass merchandisers like Target were bolstering their selection of albums just as the pandemic provided a surprising jolt.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2022

The Language of Commerce “Talcum and Glucose” As one handled the packages and read and reread the labels, one was struck by the meagre English of merchandisers and the poor verbal resources of commerce generally.

From The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America by Hudson Stuck

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