shopper

[shop-er]

noun

1. a person who shops.

2. comparison shopper.

3. a retail buyer for another person or a business concern.

4. a locally distributed newspaper of retail advertisements.

shopper

/ ˈʃɒpə /

noun

1. a person who buys goods in a shop

Other Word Forms

• nonshopper noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of shopper¹

First recorded in 1860–65; shop + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Drip pricing happens when shoppers are shown an initial price for an item or service on a website, only to find additional fees are revealed later in the checkout process.

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He said it might take a few weeks for shoppers to see the difference, since he has to sell items he brought in before the change.

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Retailers are closely monitoring whether or when shoppers will balk at prices bumped up by import costs.

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The MP urged shoppers not to stay away from Monmouth while Christmas shopping in the coming weeks to ensure flood-hit businesses continuing their clean-up on Sunday did not miss out on trade.

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It has led to a global deluge of returns, costing fashion retailers an estimated £190bn a year as would-be shoppers wonder what size they're meant to buy from which store.

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Related Words

• buyer 
• client 
• clientele 
• consumer 
• patron