merchandiser
Americannoun
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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.
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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.
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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.
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“It’s been very scary,” Ms. Eiswohld, a 28-year-old visual merchandiser, said in her living area recently.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
David Sanz, meat and seafood merchandiser for PCC Community Markets, says the past few years the company has ordered 10,000-plus turkeys for Thanksgiving, and this year they did not receive that full order.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
Going forward, according to a source in contact with Massmart management, Walmart's brick and mortar focus will likely be on wholesale merchandiser Makro and hardware chain Builders - Massmart's two better-performing brands.
From Reuters ● Oct. 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 Whitehead, Harold
Outside the lab, colors were minted by advertisers and merchandisers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
And while that continues, she says, foreign designers and merchandisers will do the same.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2025
The list, which began in 1993 and includes the top 150 books, is “based exclusively on sales analysis from U.S. booksellers including bookstore chains, independent bookstores, mass merchandisers and online retailers.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2023
For nearly a century, filmmakers, theater makers, writers, composers, radio producers and merchandisers have reimagined the work.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2023
Most successful retail coffee merchandisers establish the coffee department near the entrance to the store, where it can be seen through a window by passers-by, especially if there is an ornamental roasting and grinding equipment.
From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)
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