Modern school

Shopping Vocabulary Pronunciation


Shopping Vocabulary Set 2: People


shopper – a person who is shopping

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   It was the start of the summer sales and the high street was packed with shoppers. customer – a person who buys goods or services from a shop or business
   

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   I like to do my shopping early in the morning before the shops get busy with customers.
   

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retailer – a business or person that sells goods to individual customers, as opposed to a wholesaler or supplier, who normally sell their goods to another business

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   Although supermarkets are primarily food retailers, they also sell many other things such as electrical goods and clothing.
   

bargain hunter – someone who is looking for goods that are very good value for money, usually because they are on sale at a lower price than normal

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   My sister is a keen dedicated bargain hunter and rarely pays full price for anything.
   

shop assistant / sales assistant – a person who serves customers in a shop

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   These days, shop assistants are often too busy chatting to one another to help their customers.
   

cashier - the person who takes the money in a shop

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   The cashiers were all busy and I had to join a queue to pay for my groceries. market trader / market vendor – a person who runs a stall at a market
   

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   I was late getting into town and many of the market traders were already packing away their stalls.
   

store detective – a person employed by a store to detect and prevent theft from the store by shoplifters.

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   The store detective stopped the man as he was leaving the store and discovered a stolen bottle of wine in his coat pocket.