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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Bill Hays—taut, with a neatly trimmed gray horseshoe hairline—sat behind the counter and immediately clocked me as a journalist, not some casual shopper.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
A low price may secure an order, but it will not necessarily persuade a shopper.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
This all leaves Big Food facing a long road back to the American shopper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
There are fluorescent lights, sweated-out windows, pizzas stacked like evidence, and the unshakable feeling that every other shopper is experiencing their first day on earth while glitching gently in front of the popsicles.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
The gas station has comic books, so I can pretend I’m looking at each one really close, because I’m a shopper.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
But Albertsons did find that shoppers who were using the tools were actually making purchases with higher average order values almost immediately.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Healthy demand at Coach and Ralph Lauren shows that middle-income shoppers still want to buy luxury goods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The reopening was packed with shoppers, store owners and residents, who milled about the refurbished center and enjoyed free drinks and food offered from kiosks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
But most high street stores have sold out of eclipse glasses and online shoppers who track down a pair risk them not being delivered in time.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Over the course of a few hours, his shoppers included a young woman with a giant diamond ring and a former airplane parts inspector living off her disability checks.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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