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merchants

  • plural
    of merchant.
    merchant
    noun
    a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader.

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President Harley Finkelstein called the report “the perfect example” of Shopify’s ability to deliver on what merchants need today while investing in agentic commerce and other technologies of the future.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

Its Buy For Me feature lets users purchase some of those items from other merchants, but without leaving Amazon’s site.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

In the nine days since riots erupted in cities across France, thousands of merchants have also boarded up their storefronts, radically altering the Paris streetscape.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

ByteDance has said merchants can’t buy their way into better recommendations.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

I showed him the spice merchants and the vegetable stalls and the man with the basket of cobras.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan