(UK, Ireland) An employee in a shop, a shopkeeper.
(UK, Ireland) An employee in a shop, a shopkeeper.
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(British) A retail store floor supervisor.
(chiefly, UK, social science) A person who practises deshopping.
Shop-walker is a British term for a floor supervisor in a retail store — a member of staff who walked the shop floor directing customers to the right departments and overseeing sales assistants. The role was a feature of large Victorian and Edwardian department stores, where the shop-walker was an imposing figure of retail authority. The term is largely obsolete, replaced by 'floor manager' or 'department supervisor,' but survives in historical accounts of retail culture and Victoriana.
(UK, Irish, Commonwealth) A retailer or distributor who has stocks of a certain type of item for sale.