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merchandiser

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

noun

  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.


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

Later that year, the company plucked Mark Tritton, Target’s chief merchandiser, as its next C.E.O.

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 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

Bacchus the Loosener and Terpsichore and Thalia preside over the former; and the latter raiseth us up betimes to attend on Minerva the Work-mistress, and Mercury the merchandiser.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

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