shopper
Americannoun
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shoppers
plural
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a person who shops.
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a retail buyer for another person or a business concern.
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a locally distributed newspaper of retail advertisements.
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“Raising my brow would open my eyes, and once I saw that, I could never look at myself in the same way,” said Schmeltzer, a 55-year-old personal shopper at Bergdorf Goodman in New York.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
But your robot shopper doesn’t watch TV, and if you’re outsourcing the shopping to it, you are not giving Amazon the same chance to harvest dollars from you as you walk through the digital store.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
Supermarkets commonly offer deep discounts and promotional deals on turkeys, losing money so they can get it back when the shopper buys other ingredients and sides.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
Perea, who describes himself as a bargain shopper, is passionate about repurposing whatever he can; many of the succulents at the stadium came from his own clippings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
He's not really that much of a shopper, so I figured that if he had managed to find these things, they must have been right out in the open where anyone could have spotted them.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
Retailers risk the loyalty of their shoppers when they don’t meet such expectations, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
This strategy hurt Kroger’s leverage with suppliers but gave it flexibility to offer targeted sales to shoppers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Foran says the changes will help Kroger better compete for cash-strapped shoppers, whose hunt for the best deals have led them elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
The discounts from Target come as shoppers start to turn their attention to holiday shopping, which has increasingly been defined by big discount events held by the largest retailers through the fall.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
It was empty of shoppers that morning—nothing but the occasional sound of automobiles breaking the graveyard silence of the cars in the lots, lined up like tombstones.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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